Re: SL -> LS pain

[Gavin Carr <..hidden..>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:47:52AM +1000, Ashley J Gittins wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Phil Rhoades wrote:
> > but I can't find a perl-Config-Std rpm anywhere (I installed
> > perl-Config* but that didn't help) . .
> 
> Hi Phil,
> 	I had the same problem on FC6. After some googling I found this package via 
> pbone:
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/reb00t.com/fedora/6/perl/perl-Config-Std-0.0.4-1.n0i.2.v0.0.4.noarch.rpm
> 
> It seemed to do the job. IIRC I think it required the perl-version package as 
> well, but that one is in extras or core so no problem there.
> 
> I agree with you though, it is painful to deal with perl packages on 
> fedora/redhat if you are trying to do things "the distro way" by sticking to 
> rpms. If anyone has tips on how to manage this (just installing via cpan 
> isn't really "managing" it) I'd love to hear them - hopefully there is some 
> trick to using cpan to magically create rpm's or something :-)

Yep. :-) e.g.

  http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/

This works really nicely, especially if you want to snapshot a 
particular set of modules and then deploy them across multiple
machines.

Cheers,
Gavin