[TriLUG] cpan2rpm

[Scott Lundgren]

Owen's comment in the gentoo thread about not wanting to mix PERL  
rpm's with CPAN packages suggested to me he may not have know about  
the cpan2rpm tool. See below:

> Thanks - that could be useful. You should post it to the list too.
>
> Owen
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:41:25PM -0500, Scott Lundgren wrote:
>>
>>> CPAN and portage, helping keep everything consistent. It drives me
>>> crazy having a mix of RPM's and CPAN on RedHat systems.
>>>
>>
>> Didn't want to hijack the other thread & thought I'd toss $0.02 of
>> helpfulness on the line that caught my eye. Do you know about:
>>
>> http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/
>>
>> It takes any cpan pacakage builds a .spec file for it and creates an
>> rpm. The website will even build some pacakges for you. I certainly
>> wasn't thrilled with mixing required perl packaged rpm's with code
>> that I needed until I found this tool to unite them together.
>>
>> - SL
>>