RPM Utility

[Richard <nospam [at] zen.co.uk>]

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Date forwarded: 9 Jun 1999 14:03:59 -0000
Date sent: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:38:21 +0200
From: Jochen Wiedmann <joe [at] ispsoft.de>
To: rpm-list [at] redhat.com, msql-mysql-
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Perl5 Porters <perl5-porters [at] perl.org>
Copies to: Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig [at] anima.de>,
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Subject: Announce: makerpm.pl
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Hi,

I'd like to announce the first public release of makerpm.pl, a
script for generating RPM packages from Perl packages. It is based on
the standard MakeMaker mechanism, thus hopefully compliant to both
Perl and RPM standards. To use it, you simply

- store makerpm.pl and the packages .tar.gz file in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
- run

makerpm --specs --source=<package>-<version>.tar.gz

this will create a SPECS file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
- run

rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/<package>-<version>.spec

this will create binary and source RPM's

I intend to enhance the script for building PPM files ASAP. Any
feedback welcome.

The script is available from any CPAN mirror, in particular

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED

Bye,

Jochen

--
Jochen Wiedmann joe [at] ispsoft.de
A mathematician is an engine for converting coffee +49 7123 14887
into theorems. (Hi, Lukas! :-)

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