On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:46, Paul Rushing wrote:
> cpanflute works fairly well (it's included with redhat's rpm build
> package).  But, it requires you to download the cpan package then
> run /var/lib/rpm/cpanflute cpanpackage.tar.gz  

Seems like I installed the perl-CPAN rpm for this.

 Then you get a few errors
> because of directories in /tmp (/tmp/cpan/junk /tmp/cpan/temp) that don't
> exist.  So, you create those, then you get a .src.rpm package in
> /tmp/cpan/temp that you can rpm --rebuild perl-cpanpackage.src.rpm.. then
> if it compiles correctly you can install the .rpm from
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/...   It's quite a few steps...
> 
> In trying to find a better way I've come across this package
> http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/
> 

THanks for the link. I had seen references to this but had forgotten
about it. I think this is especially important since cpanflute is not
included in redhat 9 rpm-build.  Not sure about RH 8


Bret


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