On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 9:46 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 2/20/22 07:38, Fulko Hew wrote: > > I just found my first example of the issue... > > > > I need DateTime:Event:Sunrise and there isn't a Fedora package for it. > > Careful, there are double colons needed in the name.
Sorry, that was my Perl dyslexia kicking in. Where my brain always gets it wrong between the module names that use a single hyphen versus the file hierarchy that uses a single slash, and the class path that uses double colons. I actually did use double colons when I tried the command, but my fingers broke down while typing my email. There's a very > handy package called "cpanspec" which helps you package cpan packages > into rpms. > > In this case, when I first tried it, it gave a list of required packages > which were all available in Fedora. > > dnf install 'perl(DateTime::Set)' 'perl(DateTime::Span)' > 'perl(DateTime::SpanSet)' 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)' > 'perl(Set::Infinite)' 'perl(Test::Exception)' 'perl(Test::More)' > > Then I could run (as a user): > cpanspec --build --packager me DateTime::Event::Sunrise > > This generated an installable rpm. > Thanks for pointing out that app, but I fail to see how having me make an RPM for a Fedora-unsupported module avoids the problem of incompatibilities between newer Fedora sources packages and locally sourced packages (or locally CPAN installed modules) Or am I missing something?
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