cpandpkg (Was: Re: Gaim lost spell check)

[Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:04:24AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> BTW - checkinstall.
> 
> Nice tool.  It would be nice to have that linked into 
> 
>     perl -MCPAN intall Foo:Baz
> 
> My poor system is a mix of debian perl packages, packages I've created
> with whatever tool that is to build packages form CPAN, and modules
> installed with CPAN.

You might want to look into dh-make-perl, which can turn CPAN tarballs into
.deb's lickety-split.  Here is a script I use to make downloading and
debianizing a one-command process:
    http://sharpsaw.org/pkg/cpandpkg
(Note: It uses cpanp instead of cpan (apt-get install libcpan-plus-perl)).

If you install CPAN packages this way, you can do all the normal package
management stuff that you can do with .deb's.

-rjk