Using CPAN to update perl modules

[Sam Varshavchik]

Mark Haney writes:

> 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.

You say you just want a newer version.

Chances are that if you take the existing version's source rpm, and frob it  
appropriately, you'll get the right results.

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