Scripted installs

[Radoslaw Zielinski]

Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com> [17-04-2008 00:59]:
> On Apr 16, 2008, at 7:05 PM, "Paul Makepeace" <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>> What's the state of the art in terms of repeatably installing Perl
>> software? ...

Too many CPAN authors are trying to be smart in the {Makefile,Build}.PL,
so I'm sticking to *.spec files with custom build instructions -> RPM.
Many modules can be built correctly / properly with the *.PL / make
install DESTDIR=..., but not all of them.  This often works like a charm
instead of perl *.PL, if you're feeling too lazy to debug a long and
ugly build script:

  perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e 'WriteMakefile(NAME=>"Foo::Bar")'

[...]
> Sadly, that doesn't help much on Red Hat variants or Macs...

http://cvs.pld-linux.org/SOURCES/pldcpan.pl might be a starting point.
It's PLD-specific and I never tried it on other distribution, but that
should just be the matter of editing the Template::Toolkit bit in the
__DATA__.  Usage:

  $ pldcpan.pl Acme::Monkey
   -- searching for 'Acme-Monkey' on search.cpan.org
   .. found http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/B/BL/BLUEFEET/Acme-Monkey-4.99.tar.gz
   .. processing /home/users/radek/tmp/Acme-Monkey-4.99
   .. writing to '/home/users/radek/tmp/perl-Acme-Monkey.spec'

  $ mv Acme-Monkey-4.99.tar.gz ~/rpm/SOURCES/

  $ rpmbuild -bb perl-Acme-Monkey.spec
  [...]
  Wrote: /home/users/radek/rpm/RPMS/perl-Acme-Monkey-4.99-1.noarch.rpm
  [...]

  $ rpm -qlp ~/rpm/RPMS/perl-Acme-Monkey-4.99-1.noarch.rpm                
  /usr/share/man/man3/Acme::Monkey.3pm.gz
  /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Acme/Monkey
  /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Acme/Monkey.pm
  /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Acme/Monkey/ClearScreen.pm
  /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Acme/Monkey/Frame
  /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Acme/Monkey/Frame.pm
  /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Acme/Monkey/Frame/Layer.pm

-- 
Radosław Zieliński <radek at pld-linux.org>
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