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- To: pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Distribution installer that defaults to Debian? Code at github!!
- From: Joel Roth <jroth>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:21:21 -1000
- Message-id: <20110217072121.GA29064@sprite>
- Reply-to: Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>
- In-reply-to: <20101219233626.GA25276@sprite>
- References: <20101219233626.GA25276@sprite>
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 01:36:26PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I often find myself going through the same ritual
> when installing a new module, say Something::Great
>
> Do I have it already?
>
> perl -MSomething::Great -e 1
>
> Does Debian have it?
>
> apt-cache search libsomething-great-perl
>
> If Debian has it, I install with apt-get, if not,
> I install with a CPAN client (these days cpanm)
> into a local::lib.
>
> Is anyone aware of some tool that does this? Otherwise I might
> write a simple script.
Hi again,
I dived into cpanminus and hacked in apt-get support
for installing packages and their dependencies.
What I didn't get is how to see what version of a Debian
package is ready to install. (Version is checked *after*
installation.)
Note that Debian support is conditional on
* `which perl` returning /usr/bin/perl (to play safe with perlbrew)
* Dpkg::Version and Debian::AptContents are installed
Also note that this hacked cpanm executes
'sudo apt-get --assume-yes install libfoo-perl'.
It doesn't (but probably should) require the -S|--sudo
flag.
Finally, I didn't follow Miyagawa's OO coding practices...
just threw in variables and subs. Proof of concept,
so to say.
Let me know it's at all interesting or useful to you.
Joel
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Joel Roth
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