Installing Perl Modules with RPM

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 26 17:25:49 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:14:10AM -0400, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> I have been in the habit of using CPAN to install perl modules onto
> servers. However, this time around I decided to try installing them with
> YUM/RPM onto my new Fedora Core 6 server.
> 
> One of the modules I need is
> Time::HiRes which curiously was not available through yum. So I went
> looking and found an RPM at rpm.pbone.net. When I tried installing this
> rpm I got a conflict with perl-5.8.8-10. I little bit more Google work and
> it seems that perl-5.8.8-10 might have made Time::HiRes obsolete.
> 
> Can any of you confirm or deny this?

Hmm, not sure.

As for making packages, I must admit I am spoiled:

# dh-make-perl --build --cpan Time::HiRes 

(assuming you fulfill the perl module dependancies in order of course)

And out should come a ready to install .deb

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