Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> writes:
Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:36 +1000, Rob Kearey wrote:
>
>> CPAN+ can build debian packages with CPANPLUS::Dist. Would it be
>> worthwhile creating an RPM target?
> Would it offer something that cpan2rpm or RPM-Specfile already don't?
>
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Chip has expressed that he wants to fix cpanflute2 (shipped in Core)
to do exactly what we want. Let's get him on this list. Hey Chip
this is the Fedora Project perl team's devel list. I aim to keep list
traffic here low noise through strict moderation and zero tolerance
for bullshit.
While cpanflute2 writing specs closer to the Fedora Project perl spec
template would help us, it will never be a fully automated
process. Each package needs to be analyzed to disable part or whole of
"make test" because it is inappropriate to run network tests in the
build system. Other packages need to be told the location of other
non-perl software and stuff.
Hi guys!
Sorry for the late response. Been a busy couple weeks (new job, moved
across country, all those convenient excuses).
I am indeed happy to improve RPM-Specfile in whatever ways we can
brainstorm and in whatever ways will help Fedora. Right now, the
source is embedded in the middle of my own personal subversion repo,
but I can split it out into something more public if people are
interested.
I've read over the archives (still waiting for moderator approval to
join), but as far as RPM-Specfile's general use... well, it's always
been intended to work on RHL/RHEL/Fedora. I'm not aware of anyone who
really used it on other distros. That's not to say I would blindly
make it forever incompatible with other distros, but the priority has
always been supporting RHEL/Fedora and so I'm comfortable keeping
along that same path.
I agree also that just packaging every tarball is a bad
idea... there's a lot of bad stuff on CPAN. But, ideally, it should
be as simple as saying 'make an rpm of Fritzy-Blip' and it happens, so
that we can rapidly package as much interesting stuff as possible.
So... what do we need cpanflute2 to do better?
Chip
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