[rt-users] perl dependancies

[Bruce Campbell]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Malcolm Herbert wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:18:20AM +0200, Banze, Andreas wrote:
> |> I don't seem to be able to satisfy any of these perl dependancies.
> |
> |testdeps (the script itself, I never managed to do it through make)
> |does understand the parameter "-fix" to do it all by itself. tryp
> |./sbin/testdeps -fix mysql (or whatever you are using as dbm)
>
> I'd rather do it manually the first time, but thanks for the info
>
> |interesting way to scan for CPAN modules. Let me introduce you into
> |another way:
> |
> |perl -MCPAN -e shell;
>
> yeah - bruce pointed me at that on IRC about two minutes ago ... :)
>
> never seen that before, but it looks like it will be useful. thanks

Sheesh, you get this far and haven't encountered the Creamy Goodness that
is CPAN?  Shame on you boy.  ( see also http://search.cpan.org/ ).

> |If you see a message that states that there is a newer version of CPAN,
> |install it first - otherwise it may try to update your perl as well
> |which sometimes breaks the system.
>
> I'd rather see whether these modules are included in any others then
> build an appropriate NetBSD pkgsrc package for them rather than use the
> CPAN installer ... that way I don't need to do anything special on any
> of the other machines I need to install this on ... :)

As mentioned on irc, FreeBSD (at least) comes with bsdpan, and I think
that NetBSD does as well.  The end effect is that modules installed via
CPAN then show up with the standard package management tools (pkg_*).

No need to reinvent the wheel.

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