On 03/03/2010 05:13 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Wait until you will want to address a "serious/critical" bugfix to a
> perl-module which carries a dependency on a perl-module you haven't kept
> in sync with CPAN => You'd have to resort to either "fastestly"
upgrade
> a series of perl-modules or resort to other solutions (E.g. to
> deliberately remove versioned dependencies from rpm and try to get away
> without them.)
oh, please -- simply this is simply FUD there; perl module
packaging against CPAN is not black art,
Right, ... and we (the Fedora perl
maintainers) push updates to assist
you. That's why these updates are being pushed.
A trained eye and a minimal bit of work can yield a set of
grep based filters to 'see' such trivially; I run rpmbuild,
then a local helper wrapper: perl-rmbuild, and can knock out a
module in less than 5 minutes to current. I think the deepest
chain I have is perhaps 30 modules
Well, the deepest chain I have is rt-3.x.x. It took several months of
getting it into Fedora and is the origin of me maintaining ca. 50+
modules in Fedora.
Ralf