Drew you rock!
I've always wondered (always too lazy to search) how to make a debian
package from perl sources, great!
and actually, you and Dave are both right! it's maybe better to build
deb packages for easy administration of systems, but if you alone work
on your laptop, and your laptop is a testing environment for about
anything, i think it's a good exercise to learn CPAN (especially if you
have to use CPAN to get modules installed on Sun machines ;) )
i haven't had any problems with CPAN and debian, i've even already
installed and deleted some packages through CPAN, no trouble at all. But
hey, we're using the best distribution in the world, so did you expect
else? Besides, ppl that use debian, know how to clean their mess up if
their system got fux0red by some pkgmanager or whatever.
Debian should have a warning sticker:
-----------------------------------------
Requirements:
- brains and logic, that's all you need
-----------------------------------------
Cheers guys!
Johnny
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:40, Drew Crampsie - Software Developer wrote:
> Johnny Morano wrote:
>
> >Hi Paul,
> >
> >I use debian unstable :-D
> >i just
> >apt-get install apache-perl libapache-mod-perl
> >
> >and then i CPANed maypole to my laptop, and whoopie, it works :-D
> >
> >
> using CPAN to install perl modules in debian is not a good idea! a later
> .deb install of a module could clobber something. debian provides
> dh-make-perl to create a .deb from cpan, i built debs of the only two
> modules that are not in unstable ( Class::DBI::AsForm
> Class::DBI::Plugin:Type). the rest of maypole can be apt-getted!, with
> the exception of maypole itself of course, which also works with
> dh-make-perl :)
>
> I'm gona paste the notes i took when installing maypole below, just to
> help out anybody searching google for 'maypole debian' as i did :).
>
> Packages from the debian archives.
>
> I'm installing using debian unstable, and i'd like to use as many
> packages from the debian archive as possible. in cpan, modules are in
> the form [Class]::[Subclass][(::Subclass)]. Debian uses a different
> format to represent these modules. a perl module in debian looks like
> this: lib[class]-[subclass]-[(subclass)]-perl. so before using
> dh-make-perl to create a custom .deb, we'll look in debian for the equiv.
>
> you'll need dh-make-perl. and a c compiler. oh .. and perl should be
> installed too.
>
> so, to build a .deb of maypole , first i did :
>
> dh-make-perl --build --cpan Maypole
>
> which turns up some errors concerning which modules we should have
> installed:
>
> Looks good
> Warning: prerequisite Apache::Request 0 not found.
> ---> available in debian as libapache-request-perl - Generic
> Apache Request Library
>
> Warning: prerequisite CGI::Untaint 0 not found.
> ---> debian : libcgi-untaint-perl,requires libexporter-lite-perl
> libuniversal-exports-perl, which it installs automatically.
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI 0.96 not found.
> ---> debian: libclass-dbi-perl, requires ::
> libclass-accessor-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl
> libclass-trigger-perl libclass-whitehole-perl libdbi-perl
> libdbix-contextualfetch-perl libima-dbi-perl
> libio-stringy-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
> libuniversal-moniker-perl
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::AbstractSearch 0 not found.
> ---> debian : libclass-dbi-abstractsearch-perl
> libsql-abstract-perl
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::AsForm 2.2 not found.
> ---> this one is the first on the list not in debian. So
> dh-make-perl to the rescue.
> ---> $ dh-make-perl --cpan Class::DBI::AsForm --build
> ---> # dpkg -i libclass-dbi-asform-perl_2.3-1_all.deb
>
> ---> this also requires Class::DBI::Plugin:Type, which is not in
> debian.
> ---> $ dh-make-perl --cpan Class::DBI::Plugin::Type --build
> ---> # dpkg -i libclass-dbi-plugin-type-perl_0.02-1_all.deb
>
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::FromCGI 0.94 not found.
> ---> debian: libclass-dbi-fromcgi-perl
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::Loader 0.02 not found.
> ---> debian: libclass-dbi-loader-perl
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::Loader::Relationship 0 not found.
> ---> debian: libclass-dbi-loader-relationship-perl
> liblingua-en-inflect-number-perl liblingua-en-inflect-perl
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::Pager 0 not found.
> ---> debian : libclass-dbi-pager-perl libdata-page-perl
>
> Warning: prerequisite Class::DBI::Plugin::RetrieveAll 0 not found.
> ---> debian: libclass-dbi-plugin-retrieveall-perl
>
> Warning: prerequisite Template 0 not found.
> ---> debian: libappconfig-perl libtemplate-perl
> ---> i also recommend a local copy of the TT docs :
> libtemplate-perl-doc
>
> Warning: prerequisite Template::Plugin::Class 0 not found.
> ---> debian : libtemplate-plugin-class-perl
> ---> i also want to investigate
> libtemplate-plugin-calendar-simple-perl, as i probably gona need it.
> Warning: prerequisite UNIVERSAL::moniker 0 not found.
> ---> debian: was installed by an earlier package.
>
> Warning: prerequisite UNIVERSAL::require 0 not found.
> ---> this is odd, debian select libuniversal-export-perl instead
> .. we'll see if it works.
>
> Writing Makefile for Maypole
> Making SQLite DB
> ---> we need to install libdbd-sqlite-perl sqlite sqlite-doc
>
>
> At this point maypole is installed, but we'll need a few more package to
> get it running.
> ---> libdbd-pg-perl libclass-dbi-pg-perl : i'm using postgres.
> ---> libpg-perl libpgtcl postgresql postgresql-client : so i'll
> actually need postgres as well.
>
>
> After all that mess, don't forget to :
>
> dpkg -i libmaypole-perl_1.7-1_all.deb
>
>
> drewc
>
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