[users] perl packages

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

Hi Everyone,

I'm installing RT 4.something (after not using it for
very many years) on a CentOS 6.3 server and I need a bunch of perl
packages. I managed to get several of the dependencies from the CentOS base
repo, and third party repos epel and repoforge.

I still have many perl
packages to install before I can install RT. So, while I was searching for
RPMs, I found http://pkgs.repoforge.org, which appears to have quite a few
of the perl libraries I'm looking for. For example, I need CSS::Squish, and
here it is: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-CSS-Squish/.

Thing is, the
perl-CSS-Squish RPM for CentOS 6 isn't in any the repoforge repos
(rpmforge, rpmforge-extras, and rpmforge-testing). Yet, there are RPMs in
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-CSS-Squish/.

Should I stay away from RPMs
under http://pkgs.repoforge.org if they're not in the main, extras and
testing repos?

Regards,

Ranbir

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

Post by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Hi Everyone,

[snip]

Crap...sorry about the HTML in the original post.

Regards,

Ranbir

[Kadel-Garcia, Ignacio]

I see it in the rpm forge repository for RHEL 6 and CentOS 6, no problem.

Nico Kadel-Garcia
TUSK Senior Sysadmin
Email: nico.kadel at tufts.edu
Phone: [phone]


From: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca<mailto:m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca>>
Reply-To: Discussions regarding Repoforge for users <users at lists.repoforge.org<mailto:users at lists.repoforge.org>>
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:43 PM
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Subject: [users] perl packages


Hi Everyone,

I'm installing RT 4.something (after not using it for very many years) on a CentOS 6.3 server and I need a bunch of perl packages. I managed to get several of the dependencies from the CentOS base repo, and third party repos epel and repoforge.

I still have many perl packages to install before I can install RT. So, while I was searching for RPMs, I found http://pkgs.repoforge.org, which appears to have quite a few of the perl libraries I'm looking for. For example, I need CSS::Squish, and here it is: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-CSS-Squish/.

Thing is, the perl-CSS-Squish RPM for CentOS 6 isn't in any the repoforge repos (rpmforge, rpmforge-extras, and rpmforge-testing). Yet, there are RPMs in http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-CSS-Squish/.

Should I stay away from RPMs under http://pkgs.repoforge.org if they're not in the main, extras and testing repos?

Regards,

Ranbir

--
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

What the derp. Why can't I? Hmmm....

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:43:38 +0000, "Kadel-Garcia, Ignacio"

Post by Kadel-Garcia, Ignacio
I see it in the rpm forge repository for RHEL 6 and CentOS 6, no problem.

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:05:01 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu

Post by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
What the derp. Why can't I? Hmmm....

Never mind...I had epel configured and it was throwing everything off,
even though I'm using the yum priorities plugin. After disabling epel I
was able to pull down the other perl RPMs I found (I still have a whack of
perl modules missing that are needed for the RT4 install).

NB: I'm not sure why epel was breaking things for me.

Regards,

Ranbir

[Natxo Asenjo]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu

Post by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:05:01 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu

Post by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
What the derp. Why can't I? Hmmm....

Never mind...I had epel configured and it was throwing everything off,
even though I'm using the yum priorities plugin. After disabling epel I
was able to pull down the other perl RPMs I found (I still have a whack of
perl modules missing that are needed for the RT4 install).

for RT and any other Perl app that uses cpan extensively (and you
should if you use Perl) my experience is: forget rpms, use perlbrew
and cpanm. It makes your life much easier, installation and upgrades
are a breeze and you do not need to mess with repos and the vendor
Perl.

We distribute it with cfengine and life is much easier :-)

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:03:54 +0200, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com>

Post by Natxo Asenjo
for RT and any other Perl app that uses cpan extensively (and you
should if you use Perl) my experience is: forget rpms, use perlbrew
and cpanm. It makes your life much easier, installation and upgrades
are a breeze and you do not need to mess with repos and the vendor
Perl.

I've never heard of perlbrew - sounds awesome! I will definitely give
that a try now.

Thanks for the heads up!!!

Regards,

Ranbir