[suggest] request for multiple perl modules

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Peter Willis wrote:

> I just started using rpmforge and it's minimized the packaging I need to do 
> by a great amount. However there are still some perl modules which I need 
> that rpmforge does not provide, so i'd like to ask if they could be added to 
> the list of maintained packages. The version numbers might not be the 
> absolute latest, they are from the cpan modules list I downloaded 2 days ago 
> but these versions should be plenty new enough for me. An example URL to 
> prepend to the tarball paths: 
> http://cpan.mirror.facebook.com/modules/by-authors/id/

I have a tool (dar-perl.py) that creates a SPEC file. I now have created 
SPEC files and packages for most of these modules:


> Apache::AuthenNIS                  0.13  S/SP/SPEEVES/Apache-AuthenNIS-0.13.tar.gz
> Apache::AuthzNIS                   0.11  S/SP/SPEEVES/Apache-AuthzNIS-0.11.tar.gz
> Apache::SubProcess                 0.03  D/DO/DOUGM/Apache-SubProcess-0.03.tar.gz
> Business::PayPal                   0.02  M/MO/MOCK/Business-PayPal-0.02.tar.gz
> CLASS                              1.00  M/MS/MSCHWERN/CLASS-1.00.tar.gz
> Config::INI::Simple                0.02  K/KI/KIRSLE/Config-INI-Simple-0.02.tar.gz
> GIFgraph                           1.20  M/MV/MVERB/GIFgraph-1.20.tar.gz
> IniConf                            1.03  R/RB/RBOW/IniConf-1.03.tar.gz
> Net::NIS                           0.43  E/ES/ESM/Net-NIS-0.43.tar.gz
> Net::SFTP                          0.10  D/DB/DBROBINS/Net-SFTP-0.10.tar.gz
> Net::SFTP::Foreign                 1.38  S/SA/SALVA/Net-SFTP-Foreign-1.38.tar.gz
> Object::MultiType                  0.05  G/GM/GMPASSOS/Object-MultiType-0.05.tar.gz
> Perl::Tidy                     20071205  S/SH/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20071205.tar.gz
> Plagger                        0.007017  M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Plagger-0.7.17.tar.gz
> Proc::PidUtil                      0.08  M/MI/MIKER/Proc-PidUtil-0.08.tar.gz
> RTSP::Lite                          0.1  N/NA/NABESHIMA/RTSP-Lite-0.1.tar.gz
> Template::Provider::Encoding       0.10  M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Template-Provider-Encoding-0.10.tar.gz
> Term::Encoding                     0.02  M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Term-Encoding-0.02.tar.gz
> Term::Size                          0.2  T/TI/TIMPX/Term-Size-0.2.tar.gz
> Term::Visual                       0.08  L/LU/LUNARTEAR/Term-Visual-0.08.tar.gz
> Text::Tags                         0.04  G/GL/GLASSER/Text-Tags-0.04.tar.gz
> WWW::Curl                          4.00  S/SZ/SZBALINT/WWW-Curl-4.00.tar.gz
> XML::Feed                          0.12  B/BT/BTROTT/XML-Feed-0.12.tar.gz
> XML::Smart                     1.006009  G/GM/GMPASSOS/XML-Smart-1.6.9.tar.gz

These are OK.


> CPANPLUS                           0.84  K/KA/KANE/CPANPLUS-0.84.tar.gz

This one is a problematic one. CPANPLUS consists of a lot of modules that 
are provided independently, so in essence there should not be a need to 
have this one. We disabled it because offering CPANPLUS together with 
normal modules will have depsolvers pull CPANPLUS instead of the 
independent module packages. Unless I am mistaken, it should not be 
required ?


> DBD::Oracle                        1.21  P/PY/PYTHIAN/DBD-Oracle-1.21.tar.gz

I need to build your other package first.


> XML::RSS::LibXML                 0.3002  D/DM/DMAKI/XML-RSS-LibXML-0.3002.tar.gz

This one is a problem as it requires a newer perl-XML-LibXML than 
RHEL/CentOS ships. As it requires the XML::LibXML::XPathContext sub 
module. Not sure what I should do, add a newer XML::LibXML and expect 
everyone to have apt pinning or yum priorities installed.

Feedback welcomed :)
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