What benefits does this give over just installing thru the CPAN shell?
Debian's package management system is, in a word, beautiful. I have a cron job run every night to pull over the list of the latest packages. Then, when I want to make sure that my system is up to date, I run 'apt-get upgrade', and all packages that have a newer version out there get upgraded. I'm not sure that I'd want this in an enterprise environment, but for me personally, it's a Good Thing. Also, with apt, you can have programs that use perl modules have apt dependencies for them.
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A big advantage of doing it this way is you can create a standard install to roll out across multiple servers, all with the same versions of CPAN modules.
The packages on the debian archive are usually out of date but with this tool (which I didn't actually know about until now), managing production enviroments becomes so much easier.
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In addition to the other replies: Once you make this .deb, you can install (and uninstall!) it on machines even if they are not connected to the internet or if they don't have a compiler installed. (In production environments, this is often the case.) | [reply] |