[tools] dar-perl.py

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it produced a SPEC file but when getting the information of your
>> user it doesn't find the key in the list. So you have to add your own
>> name to the authorities list.
>>
>> I will add some code to add Anonymous Coward instead :-)
>
> So it was looking for my key to sign the package.  I didn't know that
> was needed.  Where do I need to put my key?

No, I meant with key the 'index' in a mapping (or associative array).

It is used to translate the username into a Name+Email.

Sorry for the confusion.


>>> What exactly is this program supposed to do?  Can someone give me an
>>> example of how to use it to install a Perl module and its
>>> dependencies?
>>
>> It generates a SPEC file that can be used to create an RPM package.
>
> I was pointed to this program as a way to automatically package a Perl
> module and its dependencies without having to manually find and download
> them all.  If all it does is create a SPEC file, then how is it
> different from cpan2rpm?

It creates a SPEC file that works for all RHEL versions and even 
SLES/OpenSUSE because it doesn't pretend to be too smart.

It mostly depends what your goal is, we maintain the SPEC files afterwards 
so the aim is to generate a SPEC file that is simple to maintain.


> What I am looking for is a program that can take a package, figure out
> the dependencies, grab them from CPAN (or wherever) and package them all
> for installation.  The end result should be a group of rpms that I can
> install so that I have the module that I wanted along with all of the
> dependencies that I need to make it work.  Does anything like this
> exist?

There was a post prior to yours of someone who modified dar-perl to do 
this. Since dar-perl is just a component to maintain the SPEC files it was 
never intended to do everything you want.

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