| Subject: | Some hackery for you... |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:22:40 -0700 |
| To: | kane [...] cpan.org |
| From: | Tyler MacDonald <jos [...] dwim.org> |
Jos,
I just wanted to share some of the hackery I had to go through to
come up with the debian repo I wanted for my virtual machine deployment
plan.
The following script basically stabs at the internals of CPANPLUS
and CPLANPLUS::Dist::Deb so that some packages will install, and
won't try
to bring in dependancies that are part of the perl core. A few were
due to
quirks in the packages (eg; Crypt::IDEA's ._test.pl file), but the vast
majority was wrestling CPANPLUS into a position where it would Do The
Right
Thing.
I think the biggest problem I had was that a lot of the method in
the CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb distro try to do too much at once. If this
module
had been broken into smaller pieces, I probably could have subclassed it
with my own "quirks" class. I feel really dirty about using "local
*foo" to
override internals, but short of actually rewriting CDD, I couldn't
come up
with a better way.
It is my hope that reading through this code will give you some
ideas on how to make this process easier. If I had a bit more time I
would
have worked on Deb.pm itself and submitted some patches, but we
really need
a deployment soon (like this week) so I was rushed to complete this
component.
Despite the bumpy ride, I couldn't have gotten this accomplished
without the help of CPANPLUS/CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb. Thank you for your
continued work and support on this project. :-)
Cheers,
Tyler
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