<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Dave Cross <<a href="mailto:dave@dave.org.uk">dave@dave.org.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Gabor Szabo wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, you might know that there is a relatively new organization called Enlightened Perl <a href="http://www.enlightenedperl.org/" target="_blank">http://www.enlightenedperl.org/</a> One of their projects is to create a CPAN module called Task::Kensho <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/</a> with the sole purpose of setting the dependencies to a list of highly recommended modules. After seeing the post of Dave Cross <a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Edavorg/journal/38730" target="_blank">http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/38730</a> about building rpms from all the modules I thought it might be a good target for the Fedora Perl maintainers as well to turn those packages to be official Fedora and then maybe Red Hat packages. So I'd like to ask you to add Task::Kensho to the list of perl packages you include in Fedora. Satisfying all of the dependencies will bring a nice subset of CPAN to the Fedora users. </blockquote> </div> One of the points I made in my post was that I've already build RPMs for all of the Kensho modules (or, at least, the ones that aren't already in the Fedora repositories). So if you wanted to move them into the Fedora project you could grab them from <a href="http://rpm.mag-sol.com/" target="_blank">http://rpm.mag-sol.com/</a>. One interesting point that was thrown up by this little project. I built the spec file for perl-Task-Kensho using cpanspec. But cpanspec doesn't seem to recognise the Module::Install syntax for declaring dependencies (see, for example [1]) so I had to add the 'Requires' statements manually. With more and more CPAN authors moving to Module::Install, it would be good if cpanspec could be enhanced to support this syntax. </blockquote></div> I'm actually working on CPANPLUS::Dist::RPM to handle some of that... Turns out the way CPANPLUS::Dist works it tends to hurt my head, so between that and the Real Job lately it hasn't been going as quickly as I'd like. Also, the rpm autoprov/req scripts in Fedora won't pick up deps declared in Makefile.PL/META.yml; you've probably seen the specfile for Task::Catalyst already but I ended up just dual-declaring the deps in there. One of the things I want to do is start leveraging META.yml wherever possible. While this is still relatively new, most of the build systems (EU::MM, M::I, etc) seem to have decent, if varying, support for it. Leveraging META.yml would make life alot easier, both for creating specs/rpms, as well as for updating existing spec files.... Especially for most of the more active modules out there (I'm thinking Catalyst/Mo*se here), which all tend to leverage Module::Install. -Chris -- Chris Weyl Ex astris, scientia