From: "Florin Andrei" <florin(a)andrei.myip.org>
jdow wrote:
>
> (I jettison the Fedora RPM and use cpan. That
> gives you a "canonical" install.
yum install cpan2rpm
Then you can run cpan2rpm on any tar.gz from CPAN and build RPM packages.
That's twice "canonical" - you're using the newest CPAN stuff _and_
it's
all in RPM.
> I have a dummy spamassassin RPM that installs nothing other than the
> knowledge that a dummy spamassassin is present to satisfy the YUM
> monster.
No need to do that. Just pull all the prerequisites from CPAN, run
cpan2rpm on each one and install the packages, then build and install the
spamassassin RPM (rpmbuild -ta spamassassin*.tar.gz).
cpan gives the opportunity to install dependancies on the fly.
{^,-}
Cpan does NOT allow uninstall in any convenient manner I have found.
{O,o} to me.
You win some and you lose some.
{^_^}