Bug #8458 for CPANPLUS: Package manager support

Tue Nov 16 07:20:15 2004 Guest - Ticket created

A common problem for many SAs is the installation of Perl modules, a problem which CPANPLUS hopes to address. The installation of Perl modules is complicated by vendors often providing precompiled packages, for example as RPMs. Now that we have a common metadata format for apt, up2date and yum, it would be nice if CPANPLUS would interface with it, allowing preference to be given to vendor-built (and supported) modules.

Tue Nov 16 10:12:53 2004 kane [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> A common problem for many SAs is the installation of Perl modules, a > problem which CPANPLUS hopes to address. The installation of Perl > modules is complicated by vendors often providing precompiled > packages, for example as RPMs. > > Now that we have a common metadata format for apt, up2date and yum, it > would be nice if CPANPLUS would interface with it, allowing > preference to be given to vendor-built (and supported) modules.

we actually have such a thing already -- check cpan for CPANPLUS::Dist the upcoming 0.050 will have this on a plugin basis but out of curiousity who's 'we' that has common metadata?

Wed Nov 17 04:24:03 2004 Guest - Correspondence added

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> but out of curiousity who's 'we' that has common metadata?

Anyone that uses Linux? Developed by Red Hat/Fedora and Progeny/Debian. See http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/

Sat Dec 04 16:19:17 2004 kane [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from (no value) to 'Package manager support'

Sat Dec 04 16:21:10 2004 kane [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> > but out of curiousity who's 'we' that has common metadata?

> > Anyone that uses Linux? > Developed by Red Hat/Fedora and Progeny/Debian. > > See http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/

We're working on something like this... you'll want to keep your eyes on the CPANPLUS::Dist:: * namespace on CPAN

Mon Feb 06 07:53:02 2006 kane [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'