[aur-general] Packaging perl modules - best practices for dependancies?

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

2009/4/20 Oliver Charles <oliver.g.charles at googlemail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I used to use Arch a while ago, and packaged quite a few Perl modules
> [1]. After switching operating systems, I've come back to Arch - and I
> need to be a good maintainer of my packages :)
>
> I remember when I wrote these how frustrating it was manually writing
> just about every package for the dependancy tree. Personally, I'm of
> the stance that you should choose one package manager and stick with
> it - either all CPAN or fully Pacman/AUR. However, I've seen quite a
> few packages that do not do this. Instead, they rely on the fact that
> Build.PL and Makefile.PL are both capable of installing dependancies
> from CPAN.
>
> Like I said, I personally don't like this approach of mixing 2 package
> managers, it just seems like a recipe for confusing both package
> managers.
>
> Could anyone shed some light on what the *correct* procedure is - and
> also if there any tools out there that will scrape CPAN to build
> packages, before I write my own (in Perl, of course ;)
>

You can use perl-cpanplus-pacman [1] or pacpan [2] (webpage [3]).

[1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5954
[2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23495
[3]: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/pacpan