[Catalyst] Managing CPAN on Ubuntu [was: 'Installing under ...' on the wiki]

[Julien GILLES]

Jonathan Rockway a =E9crit :
> On Friday 05 January 2007 05:08, Richard Jolly wrote:
>> Reviving an old thread here - I was wondering if you found such a
>> Dummies list.
>>
>> I'm new to the debian/ubuntu way (I've been on FreeBSD, an OS X). I
>> gather there is a danger of mixing apt-get and CPAN installs. But from
>> my impression people usually end up with mixed installs anyway.
>> dh-make-perl is an option, but doesn't handle dependencies as well as
>> cpan.
>>
>> I'm looking for strategies to handle this - particularly in the context
>> of installing catalyst on ubuntu.
> =

> I like using CPANPLUS and CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb.  If you use this module, =

> cpanplus will build a debian package (and dependencies) and then use dpkg=
 to =

> install the module.  That means that you can easily remove and upgrade =

> packages with dpkg (and apt), or just use CPAN.  It's kind of a pain if =

> you've already installed some modules, though, so it's best if you start =

> using it right away.  (The problem, though, is that you have to install =

> CPANPLUS somehow.)
> =


Same choice here. And with reprepro it easy to manage a custom repository f=
or =

deb that allows easy apt-get install/remove on production servers.

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Julien Gilles.
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