[Hosting] RPM package for Net::LDAP

[Joseph Tate]

run

#perl -MCPAN -e shell.

If you've got perl installed, you've got some version of cpan.  You may 
not have a symlink to cpan, but you can still get a cpan shell.

Mike Mueller wrote:

>On Wednesday 21 August 2002 11:04, John Franklin wrote:
>
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>>Wouldn't using CPAN be a valid mean of installing and managing Perl
>>modules?
>>
>>http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_modules
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>
>I am going to put my neck on the block and make some guesses after having 
>read a bit about CPAN.
>
>First I checked to see if I had CPAN installed using this script from the 
>site shown above:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>
>use ExtUtils::Installed;
>my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
>foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
>my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???";
>	print "$module -- $version\n";
>}
>
>whose output on my laptop is was:
>
>[root@laptop root]# /home/mike01/temp/lperlmod
>Perl -- 5.6.1
>
>I did not have CPAN loaded.  (How about that?  My first Perl script :-)
>
>To answer the question it seems that CPAN is a valid, and arguably preferred 
>by some, way to load and manage Perl modules. But there might be a preference 
>for an RPM package for the sake of consistency (automating system 
>configuration might achieve consistency through use of RPM packages rather 
>than a combination of tarballing, CPANing and RPMing).  Maybe CPAN is 
>undesireable (meaning that it's one more tool for an unauthorized person to 
>muck with) to have on some machines where you wish to only load certain Perl 
>modules.  The security of CPAN is admittedly weak (see 
>http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html).   CPAN seems no worse off 
>than Debian's loading from the net.  (Hmmmm.  I'd better learn a bit more 
>about that.)
>
>The downside of not using CPAN might be that system of information on which 
>it depends might be undermined.  For instance the .packlist files created 
>during module installation are important to the script shown above.  On my 
>laptop I could find no .packlist files (see above example).
>
>It is probably worthwhile to compare a CPAN installation of Net::LDAP with 
>any RPM package installation of the same set of modules.  That will work 
>towards answering the question definitely if such an answer is not 
>forthcoming sooner.
>
>Good question. Thanks for the link.  I'll look into CPAN further.
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