[Ottawa-pm] Repackaging Perl modules (was Wanted: 5 Perl Programmers)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 26/02/11 Dave O'Neill said:

> Packaging modules for redistribution as OS packages (RPMs or debs)
> wasn't so bad when we did it at Roaring Penguin, even when we were
> shipping a Catalyst-based web API.  It's annoying the first time,
> sure, but it's easily automated.  For a time we were building
> Solaris .pkg files, RPMS for multiple versions of Fedora, RHEL and
> SLES, and debs for multiple versions of Debian.

cpan2rpm was a big help...

> The biggest annoyance on Red Hat is that they retain ancient
> dual-lifed modules as part of the core perl RPM, making conflicts
> inevitable when you want to ship something that requires the newer
> one.  And they blame upstream Perl for shipping them with the base
> language when asked about it :(

RedHat/CentOS stays with ancient versions of everything 'cause it's the devil
they know. I'm still working with Perl 5.8.

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein
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