installing perl modules on F10

[Ralf Corsepius]

Norman Gaywood wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10?
> 
> What we have been doing in the past is to install a perl-* rpm via yum
> if one is available for the module we want.
This is the preferred method.

> If the module is not available via rpm, we use "perl -MCPAN -e shell" to
> install modules.
 >
> However, on the systems we recently upgraded to Fedora 10 (from F8), the
> perl modules installed via CPAN are no longer in perl's @INC search path.
Yes. site_perl has been changed in F10.

> So I guess we can go through and manually install those lost modules
> with CPAN again,
Correct, in cases like this, you would have to
1.) uninstall all CPAN-built modules
2.) rebuild all CPAN-built modules

> but is there a better way?
Well, the actual cause of your issues is both CPAN and rpm being 
conflicting installer systems, which don't harmonize well.

I.e. for a clean solution providing a consistent setup one would have to 
restrict oneself to one of these and to avoid mixing them.

That said, from a distribution's point of view, packaging perl-modules 
into rpms is the preferred solution, because this is supposed to assure 
a clean setup (modulo bugs) rsp. to raise prominent warnings/errors in 
case something changes.

I.e. the preferred solution, in case somebody is missing a perl-*.rpm in 
Fedora, is this person to contribute such a corresponding rpm to Fedora.

Ralf