Bug 134048 - CPAN Shell is not intergrated with up2date
Summary: CPAN Shell is not intergrated with up2date
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Warren Togami
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-29 08:17 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-17 23:46:07 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2004-09-29 08:17:01 UTC
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Description of problem:
The Perl way of installing Perl modules - the CPAN shell - is not
intregrated with up2date.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Damian Menscher 2005-01-04 03:16:29 UTC
I can't imagine how to resolve this issue, but it's certainly becoming
an important one.  We're running RHEL 3, which is old enough that many
perl modules are horribly out-of-date.  Unfortunately there doesn't
seem to be any clean way to update them, since using CPAN breaks the
RPM package management.  Are we expected to simply compile our own RPMs?

I don't think there is an easy answer to this, but hopefully some
developer will see this and think of a good solution.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2005-01-04 08:05:44 UTC
http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ is one solution, and CPANplus will have
an interface to up2date.

Neither address the problem of very outdated perl modules hanging
around in RHEL3, with its long shelf life.

Comment 3 Rob Kearey 2005-02-16 07:04:29 UTC
Also check out Ovid:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ovid/



Comment 4 Warren Togami 2005-05-17 23:45:42 UTC
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
CPAN is the wrong way to install stuff on RPM based distributions.  Please join
the fedora-perl-devel-list team to help in putting more perl CPAN modules into
Extras, which is the only non-fragile way of doing this.


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