Using CPAN to update perl modules

[Mark Haney]

On 03/27/2012 02:02 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Mark Haney<markh at abemblem.com>  wrote:

>
> I'm not a pearl expert but I have seen MANY recommendations not to mix
> RPM and CPAN perl modules. I can think of two options. If you have
> some basic RPM packaging skills then this may be your best bet:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/cpanspec
>
> It looks like it downloads the module source and tries to create a
> spec file for it so you can build an RPM.
>


I'm no n00b to building RPMs, so that isn't a big issue.  Thanks for the 
info I'll look into a bit more and see what I come up with.


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Mark Haney
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