[users] perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

[Rob Redpath]

Hi,

I'm probably being an idiot, but I'm experiencing something odd with
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker. I'm building an RPM that needs a more recent
ExtUtils::MakeMaker than the one provided with my distribution (CentOS
5.9), so I went searching for a suitable RPM, finding one on repoforge.
However, while the file exists on pkgs.repoforge.org (
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ ), it doesn't appear to
be available through any of the repoforge repos for my distribution -
rpmforge, rpmforge-extras or rpmforge-testing. I've checked that it's not
an issue with my local yum installation - the package isn't present in the
XML.

What am I missing?

Thanks

Rob

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Post by Rob Redpath
Hi,
I'm probably being an idiot, but I'm experiencing something odd with
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker. I'm building an RPM that needs a more recent
ExtUtils::MakeMaker than the one provided with my distribution (CentOS 5.9),
so I went searching for a suitable RPM, finding one on repoforge. However,
while the file exists on pkgs.repoforge.org (
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ ), it doesn't appear to
be available through any of the repoforge repos for my distribution -
rpmforge, rpmforge-extras or rpmforge-testing. I've checked that it's not an
issue with my local yum installation - the package isn't present in the XML.
What am I missing?
Thanks
Rob

CentOS 6? I'm not sure of the specific issues with this package, but
it's very difficult to keep your CPAN modules up to date with the
latest dependencies if you're working on a core OS that is 7 years
old. It will eat an ever increasing amount of your time to try and
keep Perl components updated. Been there, done that, got the
consulting fees.

Now, if you just need more recent contemporary packages for CentOS 6,
I've got a build toolchain for RT 4 over at
https://github.com/nkadel/rt4repobuilder/. A number of those
components *do* upgrade built-in CentOS packages, so much of it would
have to go in rpmforge-extras. much as I would expect
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker to go there. But there's scertainly a working
source package for perl-ExtUtils-Maker.

[Rob Redpath]

Thanks :) I completely agree - for preference I wouldn't be building
packages for CentOS 5 but right now I need to work with what I've got.

The weird thing is that there is a package of a suitable version of
ExtUtils::MakeMaker for el5
(perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm) but it just doesn't
appear to be available in the actual repo. As a stop-gap I can just
download the RPM from pkgs.repoforge.org into my build env, but it's weird
that it's not appearing in the repo.

Post by Rob Redpath

Post by Rob Redpath
Hi,
I'm probably being an idiot, but I'm experiencing something odd with
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker. I'm building an RPM that needs a more recent
ExtUtils::MakeMaker than the one provided with my distribution (CentOS

5.9),

Post by Rob Redpath
so I went searching for a suitable RPM, finding one on repoforge.

However,

Post by Rob Redpath
while the file exists on pkgs.repoforge.org (
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ ), it doesn't appear

to

Post by Rob Redpath
be available through any of the repoforge repos for my distribution -
rpmforge, rpmforge-extras or rpmforge-testing. I've checked that it's

not an

Post by Rob Redpath
issue with my local yum installation - the package isn't present in the

XML.

Post by Rob Redpath
What am I missing?
Thanks
Rob

CentOS 6? I'm not sure of the specific issues with this package, but
it's very difficult to keep your CPAN modules up to date with the
latest dependencies if you're working on a core OS that is 7 years
old. It will eat an ever increasing amount of your time to try and
keep Perl components updated. Been there, done that, got the
consulting fees.
Now, if you just need more recent contemporary packages for CentOS 6,
I've got a build toolchain for RT 4 over at
https://github.com/nkadel/rt4repobuilder/. A number of those
components *do* upgrade built-in CentOS packages, so much of it would
have to go in rpmforge-extras. much as I would expect
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker to go there. But there's scertainly a working
source package for perl-ExtUtils-Maker.
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