Howdy all -
I downloaded Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0.tar.bz2 and used the included spamassassin.spec file to build RPMs on my Fedora Core 2 machine. However, when I tried to install them I got an error telling me that I needed perl(Parse::Syslog) and perl(Statistics::Distributions).
The search for RPMs for these Perl modules stumped me - I could only find a SUSE SRPM for perl(Parse::Syslog) that wouldn't rebuild correctly on FC2.
After screwing around and googling around quite a bit I found the most excellent cpan2rpm package at http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/. It allowed me to grab the
perl(Parse::Syslog) and perl(Statistics::Distributions) tarballs from the CPAN site and create RPMs for them in seconds.
I know that to many of you Perl mavens this is probably old news but I had not seen it before. To a non-developer like me cpan2rpm is a complete Godsend.
Now on to Razor, Pyzor and DCC!
Thanks!
Thomas
