CPAN Wrappers For Creating native system Packages

Introduction

This page lists some technologies to automatically generate native system packages from CPAN distributions. Before you go further, please read our page about using CPAN with Perl, which will provide an introduction to what CPAN is all about and where these wrappers fit in.

The List

• Gentoo
• RPMs: (for generating packages compatible with the rpm package manager)
  • CPANPLUS-Dist based:
    
    • CPANPLUS-Dist-Fedora (Fedora / Red Hat Linux)
    • CPANPLUS-Dist-SUSE (SUSE / openSUSE Linux)
    • CPANPLUS-Dist-Mdv (Mandriva)
    • CPANPLUS-Dist-Mageia (Mageia)
      
      • CPAN2pkg - generating native Linux packages from CPAN
      • App-Magpie - Mageia Perl Integration Made Easy
      • See the post “Tech Tip: How to Package and Maintain CPAN Distributions in Mageia” for more information.
    • CPANPLUS-Dist-RPM (Fedora/generic)
  • cpan2rpm
  • The "Ovid" distribution on CPAN (Not to be confused with Curtis "Ovid" Poe.)
  • cpanflute2 (contained in the CPAN distribution of RPM-Specfile.)
  • makerpm
  • cpanspec
  • rpm-build-perl
  • dar-perl.py - a Python script that automatically generates an RPMforge SPEC file based on CPAN information.
  • FPM - a Ruby tool for creating native packages.
• Debs: (for generating .deb packages compatible with Debian and derivative distributions)
  
  • CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb
  • dh-make-perl
  • FPM - a Ruby tool for creating native packages.
• Arch Linux:
  
  • CPANPLUS-Dist-Arch
• Slackware Linux:
  
  • CPANPLUS-Dist-Slackware

Links

• Packaging CPAN Modules for Debian
• CPAN RPM Packaging
• Build RPMs of CPAN Modules - by Dave Cross.