Re: RPM testing on v1.3 RC3

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Philip Rhoades <..hidden..> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Installing on a F16 i686 virtual machine:
>
> * I had to uninstall newer versions of poppler, poppler-utils and other
> packages for poppler dependencies.
>
> Again, testing with Makefile.PL script:
>
> * The rpm still needs:
>
>   perl-Module-Install
>
> after adding this package (which has another 32 dependencies) to allow
> the Makefile.PL script to run I now get:
>
>
> [Core Features]
> - Test::More                ...missing.
> - Test::Trap                ...missing.
> - Test::Exception           ...missing.

Those are build-requires, not requires.  For purposes only of running
the software, you can ignore those.

> - Data::Dumper              ...loaded. (2.130_02)
> - Log::Log4perl             ...loaded. (1.33)
> - Locale::Maketext          ...loaded. (1.19)
> - DateTime                  ...loaded. (0.70)
> - Locale::Maketext::Lexicon ...loaded. (0.84 >= 0.62)
> - DBI                       ...loaded. (1.616 >= 1.00)
> - MIME::Base64              ...loaded. (3.13)
> - Digest::MD5               ...loaded. (2.51)
> - HTML::Entities            ...loaded. (3.68)
> - DBD::Pg                   ...loaded. (2.18.0)
> - Math::BigFloat            ...loaded. (1.993)
> - IO::File                  ...loaded. (1.15)
> - IO::Scalar                ...loaded. (2.110)
> - Encode                    ...loaded. (2.42)
> - Time::Local               ...loaded. (1.2000)
> - Cwd                       ...loaded. (3.36)
> - Config::Std               ...missing.

hmmm.   I am going to change my approach to this module.

> - MIME::Lite                ...loaded. (3.027)
> - Template                  ...loaded. (2.22 >= 2.14)
> - Error                     ...loaded. (0.17016)
> - CGI::Simple               ...loaded. (1.113)
> - File::MimeInfo            ...loaded. (0.15)
> ==> Auto-install the 4 mandatory module(s) from CPAN? [y] n
>
> ie four missing modules (compared to 8 for RC2) so there is some
> improvement but it is still not 100%.

There's only one required module to run the software that isn't
showing up.  I think I am going to use CPANPLUS::Dist::RPM to generate
an rpm of that one and put it under prerequisites.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers