My knee-jerk approach to a Perl problem is to find a CPAN module to do what I want. When choosing between CPAN modules the rule of thumb in the absence of other information is to go with the most recent.

I have no recent experience with this, but I can tell you that in 2007 (as nearly as I can reconstruct) cpan2rpm (your Module to assist in converting CPAN modules to RPM) was badly broken. Specifically, it assumed things were in distributions they were no longer in, and would not even install on a then-recent Perl. If you got past that, it died trying to process packages that built using Build.PL, even if there was a Makefile.PL present.

A development release has been made since then (in 2012), but no production release. It looks like the dependency problems have been fixed, but I can not say about the Build.PL problem.

On the other hand, Sullivan Beck's App-CPANtoRPM was released last month, so that is where I would start.

In reply to Re: CPAN modules to RPMs by Anonymous Monk
in thread CPAN modules to RPMs by clueless newbie

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