Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134048
CPAN Shell is not intergrated with up2date
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: The Perl way of installing Perl modules - the CPAN shell - is not intregrated with up2date. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: x Additional info:
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 We're running RHEL 3, which is old enough that many perl modules are horribly out-of-date.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.
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 Neither address the problem of very outdated perl modules hanging around in RHEL3, with its long shelf life.
Also check out Ovid: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ovid/
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.