On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 at 9:49pm (-0400), Chris Young wrote: > I have been trying to install a Perl module DBD::mysql on our Red Hat 7.2 > machine and keep running into problems. I am moving from FreeBSD Unix. I > had used CPAN on our older system to install this module with no problems. > > I can't get CPAN to install the module correctly itself. I get the > following error: [...] > > Is there an rpm version I can install and where would I get it? I can only > find the tar.gz version at CPAN. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Chris >
I don't like to use CPAN on my redhat boxes 'cause it doesn't enter the package information in the RPM database. That said the consistancy of CPAN packages really works in our favour. Since they all build the same it's a pretty trivial affair to make spec file to build and install the package for us. I forget what package I borrowed it from but I've hacked together a spec file that just requires changing the module name and version and it builds most any CPAN perl module. It requires a little additional tweeky for DBD modules becuase they depend on DBI and the headers for the database they're build for... anyway... find attached a spec file... if you have DBD-mysql-2.1017.tar.gz in your .../SOURCES/ dir this should get you want you want. M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web Hosting Company Level 5, 100 Wickham St. Network Operations - Systems Engineer PO Box 930, Fortitude Valley. phone: +61 7 3249 2557 Queensland, Australia 4006. pgp key id: 0x900E515F
perl-DBD-mysql.spec.gz
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