On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:00:20PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote: > > 06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > > >> The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering > > >> asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this > > >> will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a > > >> Debianized way to do this? > > > > > >dh-make-perl > > > > So where does one find this wonderful tool?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apt-cache showpkg dh-make-perl Package: dh-make-perl Versions: 0.9(/var/lib/apt/lists/141.213.4.21_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/141.213.4.21_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) Reverse Depends: Dependencies: 0.9 - debhelper (2 3.0.0) libpod-parser-perl (0 (null)) perl (0 (null)) make (0 (null)) dpkg-dev (0 (null)) fakeroot (0 (null)) Provides: 0.9 - Reverse Provides: Looks like it's in woody and sid > I assume it lets you build a current version of perl, and install it The > Debian Way (tm), > correct? Not exactly [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apt-cache show dh-make-perl Package: dh-make-perl Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 92 Maintainer: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.9 Depends: debhelper (>= 3.0.0), libpod-parser-perl, perl, make, dpkg-dev, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/d/dh-make-perl/dh-make-perl_0.9_all.deb Size: 13150 MD5sum: a45fc4ee33708e9120b54e64671d3134 Description: Create debian packages from perl modules dh-make-perl will create the files required to build a debian source package out of a perl package. This works for most simple packages and is also useful for getting started with packaging perl modules. Given a perl package name, it can also automatically download it from CPAN. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton [1] TM Hertz I am sure :/
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