On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Nathan O <ndowens....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, J. W. Birdsong < > jwbirds...@jwbirdsong.homelinux.com> wrote: > >> On 09/29/10 at 12:16am, Philipp Überbacher wrote: >> > Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-09-28 22:53:45 +0200: >> > > Not sure, didn't know if we had a way to do this, so I thought I would >> bring >> > > it up, kinda thought that it would be interesting to add to AUR if we >> didn't >> > > have something similar. >> > > >> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> > > <hollun...@lavabit.com>wrote: >> > > >> > > > Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-09-28 22:40:10 +0200: >> > > > > I was looking at how Gentoo creates packages and I noticed one >> thing, is >> > > > > that Gentoo, during build, will use CPAN to get the required >> modules for >> > > > the >> > > > > package that is being built. I was thinking, I wonder if this could >> be >> > > > > implemented into AUR? >> > > > >> > > > Is it very different or superior to doing this manually or using >> > > > CPANPLUS? Example: >> > > > >> > > > >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-audio-ecasound/perl-audio-ecasound/PKGBUILD >> > >> > Well, I'm not sure what you mean exactly. I have little experience with >> > perl, but apparently you get sources always from cpan, and what CPANPLUS >> > does is helping you with/automating PKGBUILD writing, dependency >> > resolution and updating, afaik. >> You can also use Bauerbill --cpan >> Just check bauerbill man page. >> > > Ah Thanks for the pointes, I was hoping I seen a idea that we could use :) >
I created CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch, a plugin for CPANPLUS that does something similar to what you asked about: using CPAN to create perl packages. This is what Philipp is talking about. CPANPLUS is a program (named cpanp) that you use to install modules from the CPAN (central perl authors network). My module hooks into cpanp to package modules while it installs them. cpan2aur is a utility that I included with the module/plugin that can help to create AUR packages for perl modules. This can help with the PKGBUILD writing and automatically fills in the dependencies. I just wanted to clear up the confusion between terms. The plugin is available as the 'perl-cpanplus-dist-arch' package on the AUR. -Justin
