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[Cpan2rpm-general] build failure for Class-Inspector-1.28

[Srikanth R <rs...@gm...>]

hi all,

I am trying to build an rpm out of class-inspector-1.28 pkg. It actually
fails with no error msg. I tried the online package builder, it also fails.
Could not figure out the root cause. Any help is greatly appreciated :)

Details below,

Module ::
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/Class-Inspector-1.28.tar.gz

-- Stdout

-bash-4.1$ ../../cpan2rpm-2.028/cpan2rpm --no-depchk --no-sign .

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
Upgrade check
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: /home/srajan/perl-dbix/cpan/Class-Inspector-1.28 --
Metadata retrieval
-bash-4.1$ ../../cpan2rpm-2.028/cpan2rpm --debug=10  --no-depchk --no-sign .

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
DEBUG=ON [10]
Upgrade check
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: /home/srajan/perl-dbix/cpan/Class-Inspector-1.28 --
Metadata retrieval
Prototype mismatch: sub main::prompt ($;$) vs none at inc/Module/Install.pm
line 225.
-- Done --


-Thanks,
Srikanth

Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] Announcing cpantorpm

[Erick C. <zen...@gm...>]

that's cool.  you know I put cpan2rpm up on github right? so you can contribute as you like:

	https://github.com/ekkis/cpan2rpm

On Nov 30, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Sullivan Beck wrote:

> About a year ago, I was given the job of building a large number of perl 
> module RPMs on both RHEL5 and RHEL6. I started using cpan2rpm and 
> encountered a number of problems (primarily due to the fact that it 
> hasn't been active for quite a number of years) including:
> 
>    lack of support for Build.PL modules
>    interactive Makefile.PL scripts cause it to hang
> 
> Anyway, after an attempt to modify it, I eventually decided to write my 
> own (heavily borrowing from the ideas in cpan2rpm, and also borrowing a 
> bit from cpanspec).
> 
> I appreciate the work that went into both these tools.
> 
> Anyway, I've been using cpantorpm now for a while and have built around 
> 300 modules on RHEL5, 100 on RHEL6, and a couple (just to test it out) 
> on OpenSuSE 12.1. In theory, it should run on any RPM based 
> distribution, but since this is brand new, it's not tested on any but 
> the three distributions I mentioned.
> 
> I just put cpantorpm on CPAN and it should be available tomorrow.
> 
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[Cpan2rpm-general] Announcing cpantorpm

[Sullivan B. <sb...@cp...>]

About a year ago, I was given the job of building a large number of perl 
module RPMs on both RHEL5 and RHEL6. I started using cpan2rpm and 
encountered a number of problems (primarily due to the fact that it 
hasn't been active for quite a number of years) including:

    lack of support for Build.PL modules
    interactive Makefile.PL scripts cause it to hang

Anyway, after an attempt to modify it, I eventually decided to write my 
own (heavily borrowing from the ideas in cpan2rpm, and also borrowing a 
bit from cpanspec).

I appreciate the work that went into both these tools.

Anyway, I've been using cpantorpm now for a while and have built around 
300 modules on RHEL5, 100 on RHEL6, and a couple (just to test it out) 
on OpenSuSE 12.1. In theory, it should run on any RPM based 
distribution, but since this is brand new, it's not tested on any but 
the three distributions I mentioned.

I just put cpantorpm on CPAN and it should be available tomorrow.

[Cpan2rpm-general] Announcing cpantorpm

[Sullivan B. <sb...@cp...>]

About a year ago, I was given the job of building a large number of perl 
module RPMs on both RHEL5 and RHEL6. I started using cpan2rpm and 
encountered a number of problems (primarily due to the fact that it 
hasn't been active for quite a number of years) including:

    lack of support for Build.PL modules
    interactive Makefile.PL scripts cause it to hang

Anyway, after an attempt to modify it, I eventually decided to write my 
own (heavily borrowing from the ideas in cpan2rpm, and also borrowing a 
bit from cpanspec).

I appreciate the work that went into both these tools.

Anyway, I've been using cpantorpm now for a while and have built around 
300 modules on RHEL5, 100 on RHEL6, and a couple (just to test it out) 
on OpenSuSE 12.1. In theory, it should run on any RPM based 
distribution, but since this is brand new, it's not tested on any but 
the three distributions I mentioned.

I just put cpantorpm on CPAN and it should be available tomorrow.

Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] cpan2rpm problems

[Erick C. <zen...@gm...>]

Nico,

glad to hear you have a set of patches for this.  honestly I haven't had time to maintain this but I did open it up on github some time ago at:

	https://github.com/ekkis/cpan2rpm

so if you'd like to integrate your changes with that, it will make it easier for others to collaborate.

- ekkis

On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Kobus Bensch <kb...@fu...> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I downloaded the software this morning and have so far not been able to
>> build a single rpm from any cpan module.
> 
> I've got some RPM building tools for it, with patches, at:
> 
>             https://github.com/nkadel/cpan2rpm-2.028-srpm
> 
> There are some particularly useful patches for more recent versions of
> perl and RHEL 6 or Fedora.
> 
>> I want to build Plack as an rpm so I run:
>> cpan2rpm Plack
>> 
>> -- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
>> Upgrade check
>> Fetch: HTTP
>> 
>> -- module: Plack --
>> Using cached URL:
>> http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0005.tar.gz
>> Tarball found - not fetching
>> Metadata retrieval
>> Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Plack-1.0005.tar.gz]
>> Unable to build module, the following dependencies have failed:
>>  Test::Requires >= 0
>>  Stream::Buffered >= 0.02
>>  Test::TCP >= 1.02
>>  File::ShareDir >= 1.00
>>  Hash::MultiValue >= 0.05
>>  URI >= 1.59
>>  parent >= 0
>>  Devel::StackTrace >= 1.23
>>  ExtUtils::MakeMaker >= 6.59
>>  HTTP::Body >= 1.06
>>  Filesys::Notify::Simple >= 0
>>  Devel::StackTrace::AsHTML >= 0.11
>> Stopped at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 491.
> 
> So, you're going to need to install things like the HTTP::Body, URI,
> and other modules of a recent enough version, and install them as
> RPM's.
> 
> So, if you're on an RHEL or CentOS or Scientific Linux system, use
> something like this:
> 
>      yum install 'perl(HTTP::Body)'
>      yum insall ''perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'
> 
> etc., etc., etc. to get your dependencies.
> 
> Second, definitely apply my patches against cpan2rpm. and build
> yourself a new RPM for cpan2rpm itself. The "Pod::Text" dependency for
> cpan2rpm itself, for example, needs to be updated to "Pod::Parser".
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Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] cpan2rpm problems

[Nico Kadel-G. <nk...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Kobus Bensch <kb...@fu...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I downloaded the software this morning and have so far not been able to
> build a single rpm from any cpan module.

I've got some RPM building tools for it, with patches, at:

             https://github.com/nkadel/cpan2rpm-2.028-srpm

There are some particularly useful patches for more recent versions of
perl and RHEL 6 or Fedora.

> I want to build Plack as an rpm so I run:
> cpan2rpm Plack
>
> -- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
> Upgrade check
> Fetch: HTTP
>
> -- module: Plack --
> Using cached URL:
> http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0005.tar.gz
> Tarball found - not fetching
> Metadata retrieval
> Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Plack-1.0005.tar.gz]
> Unable to build module, the following dependencies have failed:
>   Test::Requires >= 0
>   Stream::Buffered >= 0.02
>   Test::TCP >= 1.02
>   File::ShareDir >= 1.00
>   Hash::MultiValue >= 0.05
>   URI >= 1.59
>   parent >= 0
>   Devel::StackTrace >= 1.23
>   ExtUtils::MakeMaker >= 6.59
>   HTTP::Body >= 1.06
>   Filesys::Notify::Simple >= 0
>   Devel::StackTrace::AsHTML >= 0.11
> Stopped at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 491.

So, you're going to need to install things like the HTTP::Body, URI,
and other modules of a recent enough version, and install them as
RPM's.

So, if you're on an RHEL or CentOS or Scientific Linux system, use
something like this:

      yum install 'perl(HTTP::Body)'
      yum insall ''perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'

etc., etc., etc. to get your dependencies.

Second, definitely apply my patches against cpan2rpm. and build
yourself a new RPM for cpan2rpm itself. The "Pod::Text" dependency for
cpan2rpm itself, for example, needs to be updated to "Pod::Parser".

[Cpan2rpm-general] cpan2rpm problems

[Kobus B. <kb...@fu...>]

Hi 

I downloaded the software this morning and have so far not been able to build a single rpm from any cpan module. 

I want to build Plack as an rpm so I run: 
cpan2rpm Plack 

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 -- 
Upgrade check 
Fetch: HTTP 

-- module: Plack -- 
Using cached URL: http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0005.tar.gz 
Tarball found - not fetching 
Metadata retrieval 
Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Plack-1.0005.tar.gz] 
Unable to build module, the following dependencies have failed: 
Test::Requires >= 0 
Stream::Buffered >= 0.02 
Test::TCP >= 1.02 
File::ShareDir >= 1.00 
Hash::MultiValue >= 0.05 
URI >= 1.59 
parent >= 0 
Devel::StackTrace >= 1.23 
ExtUtils::MakeMaker >= 6.59 
HTTP::Body >= 1.06 
Filesys::Notify::Simple >= 0 
Devel::StackTrace::AsHTML >= 0.11 
Stopped at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 491. 
cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/G8P0qN1ZyF/Plack-1.0005 for /tmp/G8P0qN1ZyF: at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902 
-- Done -- 

This is all good except for the line before the Done. 

I then try to build Test::Requires as it is required and I get: 
cpan2rpm Test::Requires 

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 -- 
Upgrade check 
Fetch: HTTP 

-- module: Test::Requires -- 
Using cached URL: http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/T/TO/TOKUHIROM/Test-Requires-0.06.tar.gz 
Tarball found - not fetching 
Metadata retrieval 
Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Test-Requires-0.06.tar.gz] 
Prototype mismatch: sub main::prompt: none vs ($;$) at (eval 53) line 2 
main::BEGIN() called at (eval 53) line 2 
eval {...} called at (eval 53) line 2 
eval 'use ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.42 
;' called at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 486 
main::get_meta() called at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 54 
Can't locate object method "interpolate" via package "Pod::Text" at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 532. 
cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/W98hAIGvDF/Test-Requires-0.06 for /tmp/W98hAIGvDF: at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902 
-- Done -- 

So maybe I did something wrong so I try the next one in the list: 
cpan2rpm Stream::Buffered 

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 -- 
Upgrade check 
Fetch: HTTP 

-- module: Stream::Buffered -- 
Using cached URL: http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/D/DO/DOY/Stream-Buffered-0.02.tar.gz 
Tarball found - not fetching 
Metadata retrieval 
Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Stream-Buffered-0.02.tar.gz] 
Prototype mismatch: sub main::prompt: none vs ($;$) at (eval 45) line 2 
main::BEGIN() called at (eval 45) line 2 
eval {...} called at (eval 45) line 2 
eval 'use ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.36 
;' called at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 486 
main::get_meta() called at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 54 
Can't locate object method "interpolate" via package "Pod::Text" at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 532. 
cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/KiLVfF9NnP/Stream-Buffered-0.02 for /tmp/KiLVfF9NnP: at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902 
-- Done -- 

Now I am getting suspicious. Maybe its not me. Here are the final attempts so: 
cpan2rpm Test::TCP 

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 -- 
Upgrade check 
Fetch: HTTP 

-- module: Test::TCP -- 
Found: Test-TCP-1.17.tar.gz 
At: http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/T/TO/TOKUHIROM 
Retrieving URL 
Metadata retrieval 
Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Test-TCP-1.17.tar.gz] 
Unable to build module, the following dependencies have failed: 
Test::More >= 0.98 
ExtUtils::MakeMaker >= 6.59 
Test::SharedFork >= 0.19 
Stopped at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 491. 
cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/yjeephirqe/Test-TCP-1.17 for /tmp/yjeephirqe: at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902 
-- Done -- 
[root@manage ~]# cpan2rpm Test::More 

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 -- 
Upgrade check 
Fetch: HTTP 

-- module: Test::More -- 
Module not found on CPAN web site! at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 1201. 
-- Done -- 
[root@manage ~]# cpan2rpm ExtUtils::MakeMaker 

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 -- 
Upgrade check 
Fetch: HTTP 

-- module: ExtUtils::MakeMaker -- 
Found: ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.63_02.tar.gz 
At: http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN 
Retrieving URL 
Metadata retrieval 
Tarball extraction: [/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.63_02.tar.gz] 
Unable to build module, the following dependencies have failed: 
perl >= 5.006 
Stopped at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 491. 
cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/Z9Qkjt1Pyd/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.63_02 for /tmp/Z9Qkjt1Pyd: at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 902 
-- Done -- 
[root@manage ~]# perl -v 

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi 

Copyright 1987-2009, Larry Wall 

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the 
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. 

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on 
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the 
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page. 


-- 

[Cpan2rpm-general] Patches available to compile cpan2rpm on RHEL 6

[Nico Kadel-G. <nk...@gm...>]

There are two notable buigs building, and using, cpan2rpm on RHEL 6.

* The 'perl Makefile.PL' process builds a Makefile that installs most
components in /usr/local. This is dealth with by RHEL with their
current MakeMaker and perl by using:

      perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor

  This workg great for me on RHEL 6, and I've published patches at

     http://github.som/nkadel/cpan2rpm-2.028-srpms/

* The 'Pod::Text" module is no longer in perl-5.10, and was only
required to provide the 'Pod::Parser' module, which is still
available. The patch for that is at:

      https://github.com/nkadel/cpan2rpm-2.028-srpm/blob/master/cpan2rpm-2.028-pod-text.patch

* There is even a cpan2rpm.spec file there to use right now, along
with the patches in the git repository, to build and a Makefile to
build RPM's for different releases usin g"mock". This has been very
useful to me, and is making my life a lot easier right now instlalling
new and old Perl modules as RPM's on verious RPM based distros.

                         Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gm...>

[Cpan2rpm-general] Bug in cpan2rpm 2.028 - tarfile extraction

[Andrew D. <ad...@tr...>]

I was just trying to use cpan2rpm to build Math::BigInt
(CENTOS 5 does not have a recent enough version in the Perl base for 
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::GoogleSafeBrowsing)

cpan2rpm fails at line 1268 in untar() because the groupname has a space 
in it, so (split)[5] gets the time instead of the filename.

I'm not sure why the verbose option is used at all; I deleted it and 
cpan2rpm worked OK.


(I read the last message to see if the list was still active, and tried 
to build cpanspec 1.78 on CENTOS 6 to see what that was like. There's no 
perl-Parse-CPAN-Packages in the standard repositories, and when 
I try to install one from CENTOS 5 or build it natively I get a whole 
bunch of other prerequisites and errors. At least cpan2rpm works for me, 
most of the time...)


-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada

Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] docdir

[Arthur R. <ar...@ny...>]

Thank you very much for your reply.
I did explore cpanspec, but it appears to offer less configuration options than cpan2rpm.

Nevertheless, you helped me isolate the problem:
rpmbuild --showrc | grep docdir
  RPM_DOC_DIR="%{_docdir}"
-14: _defaultdocdir     %{_usr}/share/doc

Once I added %_defaultdocdir to /root/.rpmmacros, everything get distributed perfectly.
cat /root/rpmmacros
%_defaultdocdir /foo/usr
%_prefix /foo/usr
%_infodir %{_prefix}/info
%_mandir %{_prefix}/man
%_docdir %{_prefix}/doc


Yes this helped,

Arthur

From: Gino LV. Ledesma [mailto:gle...@gm...]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 5:29 PM
To: Arthur Reyes
Subject: Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] docdir

Hi, Arthur

You may want to consider using cpanspec <http://cpanspec.sourceforge.net/> instead. This is what the Fedora/EPEL packagers are using for CPAN packages in RPM form. It also generates a much more legible SPEC file than cpan2rpm.

You may also want to look at the actual SPEC file that cpan2rpm generates since I believe it has its own ideas for  setting some variables.

rpmbuild --showrc | grep docdir should also show you what "live" settings are.

HTH,
Gino

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Arthur Reyes <ar...@ny...<mailto:ar...@ny...>> wrote:
Hi, this is my first post to this list. I hope it is still active.

I'm having trouble identifying how to define certain variables.

I've got .rpmmacros configured to put docs in /foo/docs
cat .rpmmacros
%_prefix /foo
%_infodir %{_prefix}/info
%_mandir %{_prefix}/man
%_docdir %{_prefix}/doc

However, when I compile Net::Netmask, rpmbuild seems to keep placing some files /usr/share/doc
The output of rpm -ql shows the following:
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016/README

This is my command line arguments
cpan2rpm Net::Netmask  --make-maker='PREFIX=/foo' --fetch=cpan --url http://mydepot/CPAN --release=1001 --no-sign

When I look at my temp file, I see that mandir and infodir use /usr/share instead of /foo/info or /foo/man
grep /usr/share /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57620
 RPM_DOC_DIR="/usr/share/doc"
       mandir=/var/tmp/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016-root/usr/share/man \
       infodir=/var/tmp/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016-root/usr/share/info \

My kernel: 2.6.18-194.el5
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Am I missing a command line parameter, that makes cpan2rpm put README in /usr/share?

Thanks!

Arthur Reyes
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Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] docdir

[Erick C. <zen...@gm...>]

Arthur,

I think your issue lies outside of cpan2rpm and has to do with the rpmbuild and its configuration.  you should look the spec file generated because that's all that cpan2rpm is really responsible for.

- erick

On May 3, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Arthur Reyes wrote:

> Hi, this is my first post to this list. I hope it is still active.
> 
> I'm having trouble identifying how to define certain variables.
> 
> I've got .rpmmacros configured to put docs in /foo/docs
> cat .rpmmacros
> %_prefix /foo
> %_infodir %{_prefix}/info
> %_mandir %{_prefix}/man
> %_docdir %{_prefix}/doc
> 
> However, when I compile Net::Netmask, rpmbuild seems to keep placing some files /usr/share/doc
> The output of rpm -ql shows the following:
> /usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016
> /usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016/README
> 
> This is my command line arguments
> cpan2rpm Net::Netmask  --make-maker='PREFIX=/foo' --fetch=cpan --url http://mydepot/CPAN --release=1001 --no-sign
> 
> When I look at my temp file, I see that mandir and infodir use /usr/share instead of /foo/info or /foo/man
> grep /usr/share /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57620
>  RPM_DOC_DIR="/usr/share/doc"
>        mandir=/var/tmp/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016-root/usr/share/man \
>        infodir=/var/tmp/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016-root/usr/share/info \
> 
> My kernel: 2.6.18-194.el5
> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> 
> Am I missing a command line parameter, that makes cpan2rpm put README in /usr/share?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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[Cpan2rpm-general] docdir

[Arthur R. <ar...@ny...>]

Hi, this is my first post to this list. I hope it is still active.

I'm having trouble identifying how to define certain variables.

I've got .rpmmacros configured to put docs in /foo/docs
cat .rpmmacros
%_prefix /foo
%_infodir %{_prefix}/info
%_mandir %{_prefix}/man
%_docdir %{_prefix}/doc

However, when I compile Net::Netmask, rpmbuild seems to keep placing some files /usr/share/doc
The output of rpm -ql shows the following:
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016/README

This is my command line arguments
cpan2rpm Net::Netmask  --make-maker='PREFIX=/foo' --fetch=cpan --url http://mydepot/CPAN --release=1001 --no-sign

When I look at my temp file, I see that mandir and infodir use /usr/share instead of /foo/info or /foo/man
grep /usr/share /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.57620
  RPM_DOC_DIR="/usr/share/doc"
        mandir=/var/tmp/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016-root/usr/share/man \
        infodir=/var/tmp/perl-Net-Netmask-1.9016-root/usr/share/info \

My kernel: 2.6.18-194.el5
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Am I missing a command line parameter, that makes cpan2rpm put README in /usr/share?

Thanks!

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[Cpan2rpm-general] Unable to Build Module, Requires perl >= 5.006

[Daniel W. <dwe...@cs...>]

Hello fellow cpan2rpm users!

First, let me say thank you to the developer. Not knowing much about 
Perl, this has greatly simplified RPM creation. Your work is much 
appreciated as I recently found myself packaging over 100 modules.

So, I'm having an annoying problem with several modules. The build 
environment is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64 running Perl as 
distributed by Red Hat. The problem I'm having is that some modules 
output a message saying they require "perl >= 5.006", or some other 
version, but I'm running Perl 5.8.8. However, if I install them with the 
CPAN command, they install without an issue. Am I missing something or 
is there a problem with the modules themselves?

[user@localhost perl]$ cpan2rpm --no-sign Test::Warn

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
Upgrade check
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: Test::Warn --
Using cached URL: 
http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHORNY/Test-Warn-0.23.tar.gz
Tarball found - not fetching
Metadata retrieval
Tarball extraction: 
[/mnt/Storage/Workspace/tmp/rpm/SOURCES/Test-Warn-0.23.tar.gz]
Unable to build module, the following dependencies have failed:
   perl >= 5.006
Stopped at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 491.
-- Done --

[user@localhost perl]$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License 
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.


Thank you,
Daniel

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[Cpan2rpm-general] A patch

[Alexey P. <al...@gm...>]

Hi,

My current job is generating/maintaining RPMs for a bunch (over 500) Perl
packages.
During the process, I discovered that several packages cause Perl seg fault
while running cpan2rpm script. I located two places that trigger seg faults.
It looks like they are not bugs as such in your script, bug some bugs in
Perl. I'm running it on RHEL 5.2, so it could be that distribution/version
specific.

Discovered/fixed a bug that fires if we deal with a Perl package generated
on Windows.
Discovered/fixed a bug caused by some packages having '/t' appended to the
package name in the first line of tar output.

I've found workarounds for these situations, and with my changes the whole
set of packages compiles fine. Please consider, that I'm not a Perl guru, so
my changes may require more error handling, etc.

Real thank you for your script. It saved me endless amount of time. I also
learned a lot while reading it. Even that it's said that Perl code is 'write
once, read never'.

The patch (for version 2.028) is attached.
-- 
Alexey Parshin,
http://www.sptk.net

Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] How to get cpan2rpm to use /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl ?

[Erick C. <e...@ar...>]

Sheldon,

sorry for the late reply.  cpan2rpm uses the macro %{__perl}, which is  
provided by RPM, whenever it needs to refer to perl... therefore you  
can redefine this macro in your ~/.rpmmacros file

please let me know if this is not what you mean.

- erick

On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Sheldon Plankton wrote:

> I am trying to use cpan2rpm  to make RPM's from CPAN modules. The
> issue I am having is that the Perl executable I need use is
> /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl  but cpan2rpm generates scripts that
> uses /apps/bin/perl. I tried making a symbolic link like so:
>
> # cd /usr/bin
> # rm perl
> # ln -s /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl perl
>
> I also change the shebang in the cpan2rpm script to
> /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl,
> but cpan2rpm generates a RPM build script that fails with ...
>
> + find /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/usr -type d -
> +depth -exec rmdir '{}' ';'
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90654 (%install)
>
>
> The files and directories under
> /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/ are
>
> # ls -l /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 12 10:44 apps
>
> So how can I get cpan2rpm use something besides /usr/bin/perl ?
>
> Thank you!
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[Cpan2rpm-general] How to get cpan2rpm to use /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl ?

[Sheldon P. <she...@gm...>]

I am trying to use cpan2rpm  to make RPM's from CPAN modules. The
issue I am having is that the Perl executable I need use is
/apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl  but cpan2rpm generates scripts that
uses /apps/bin/perl. I tried making a symbolic link like so:

# cd /usr/bin
# rm perl
# ln -s /apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl perl

I also change the shebang in the cpan2rpm script to
/apps/non-standard/perl/bin/perl,
but cpan2rpm generates a RPM build script that fails with ...

+ find /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/usr -type d -
+depth -exec rmdir '{}' ';'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90654 (%install)


The files and directories under
/var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/ are

# ls -l /var/tmp/perl-Algorithm-Interval2Prefix-0.02-root/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 12 10:44 apps

So how can I get cpan2rpm use something besides /usr/bin/perl ?

Thank you!

[Cpan2rpm-general] Using local Perl to build rpms

[Sam B. <sa...@we...>]

Greetings List,
  I have a local Perl install that I would like to manage my own yum
repo for and was hoping to use cpan2rpm to build the modules.  When
cpan2rpm builds its packages it uses perl Makefile.PL but I would like
it to use /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL.  Didn't come up with anything
in the docs.  Thank you for your time in advance.

Warm Regards
-Sam

Re: [Cpan2rpm-general] Dependency problems...

[Erick C. <e...@ar...>]

I guess the issue is that the Test::Assertions RPM must have a  
Provides line for TestScript.  this probably means patching the spec  
file and regenerating the package

On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Vic wrote:

>
> Hi All.
>
> I'm having trouble building a package from CPAN -  
> Email::MIME::CreateHTML
> . It barfs on a missing dependency - Test::Assertions::TestScript .
>
> Now according to CPAN, that's supplied by Test::Assertions, which  
> I've got
> (It's also listed as a dependency, and works fine). locate finds the  
> file
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Test/Assertions/TestScript.pm .
>
> Going through the tarball with the usual "perl Makefile.PL; make; make
> install" works, but it means this module is not controlled by my  
> package
> manager :-(
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vic.
>
>
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[Cpan2rpm-general] Dependency problems...

[Vic <cp...@be...>]

Hi All.

I'm having trouble building a package from CPAN - Email::MIME::CreateHTML
. It barfs on a missing dependency - Test::Assertions::TestScript .

Now according to CPAN, that's supplied by Test::Assertions, which I've got
(It's also listed as a dependency, and works fine). locate finds the file
at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Test/Assertions/TestScript.pm .

Going through the tarball with the usual "perl Makefile.PL; make; make
install" works, but it means this module is not controlled by my package
manager :-(

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Vic.

[Cpan2rpm-general] Patch: Suppress MY->fixin for test cases to prevent breaking of unit tests

[Gino L. L. <gle...@gm...>]

Hi, all

I've been rebuilding a number of CPAN packages into RPM lately while
transitioning from EL4 to EL5 and I noticed I had several SRPMS/spec
files call for "--make-no-test". Upon closer investigation, this was
mostly due to test cases failing because of line mismatches in the
expected output. Some unit tests expect to read back the output at a
specific line number in the test file, but these break under cpan2rpm
because of the call to the ExtUtils::MY->fixin() call. This is
inserted in every spec file prior to calling the Makefile.PL to fix
any file (excluding *.bak) that references #!.*perl.

I've attached a patch which exposes the following run-time options to cpan2rpm:
--no-perlloc-fix
--no-test-perlloc-fix

The former suppresses the call to MY->fixin entirely. The latter only
suppresses the call to MY->fixin() for the following file patterns:
- files in t/*
- files in tests/*
- files ending in ".t"

The patch was generated against cpan2rpm 2.028.

Hope this helps.

- gino

[Cpan2rpm-general] Test::Simple fails to build

[Jeff F. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi, I am trying to build Test::Simple with cpan2rpm but it fails some
of the tests.

Below is the relevant part of the output, it appears to be a regex problem.

If I cd to the build dir and run perl Makefile.pl, make, make test, it
builds ok.

Running Fedora 4, tried versions 27, 28 * 29 of cpan2rpm.

t/tbt_01basic.............NOK 6
#   Failed test 'testing failing'
#   in t/tbt_01basic.t at line 32.
# STDERR is:
# #   Failed test 'should fail'
# #   in t/tbt_01basic.t at line 31.
# #          got: 'foo'
# #     expected: 'bar'
#
# not:
# (?-xism:#\s+Failed\ test.*?\n?.*?t\/tbt_01basic\.t at line 28.*\n?)
# #          got: 'foo'
#
# #     expected: 'bar'
#
# as expected
t/tbt_01basic.............NOK 9
#   Failed test 'testing failing with todo'
#   in t/tbt_01basic.t at line 57.
# STDERR is:
# #   Failed (TODO) test 'name'
# #   in t/tbt_01basic.t at line 55.
#
# not:
# (?-xism:#\s+Failed\ \(TODO\)\ test.*?\n?.*?t\/tbt_01basic\.t at line 52.*=
\n?)
# as expected
t/tbt_01basic.............FAILED tests 6, 9
        Failed 2/9 tests, 77.78% okay
t/tbt_02fhrestore.........ok
t/tbt_03die...............ok
t/tbt_04line_num..........NOK 1
#   Failed test 'normal line num'
#   in t/tbt_04line_num.t at line 9.
#          got: '9'
#     expected: '6'
t/tbt_04line_num..........NOK 2
#   Failed test 'line number minus one'
#   in t/tbt_04line_num.t at line 10.
#          got: '9'
#     expected: '6'
t/tbt_04line_num..........NOK 3
#   Failed test 'line number plus two'
#   in t/tbt_04line_num.t at line 11.
#          got: '13'
#     expected: '10'
# Looks like you failed 3 tests of 3.
t/tbt_04line_num..........dubious
        Test returned status 3 (wstat 768, 0x300)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-3
        Failed 3/3 tests, 0.00% okay


Thanks, Jeff

[Cpan2rpm-general] Problem building RPM for Bundle::DBD::Informix-2005.02

[Trevor H. <Tre...@fo...>]

Hi,

I'm having a problem where cpan2rpm is hanging while extracting the sourc=
e tarball. Copy and paste from console:

[root@apollo cpan2rpm-2.028]# ./cpan2rpm /u/apps/tmp/DBD-Informix-2005.02=
.tar.gz -U

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
Signatures not set up
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: /u/apps/tmp/DBD-Informix-2005.02.tar.gz --
Metadata retrieval
Tarball extraction: [/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/DBD-Informix-2005.02.tar.gz]=

<hangs here>

I haven't had this problem with any other module. Is this a known issue a=
nd is there any work around?

Regards,
Trevor Hills



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[Cpan2rpm-general] Nothing happens using cpan2rpm

[SSI - B. M. <bm...@ss...>]

Hello,

Here is the result I get when using cpan2rpm (tested both 2.026 & 2.027) =
:

# cpan2rpm =
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-2.9007.tar.gz

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.027 --
Signatures not set up
Upgrade check
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: =
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-2.9007.tar.gz --
Metadata retrieval
Tarball extraction: [/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/DBD-mysql-2.9007.tar.gz]

... and nothing more happens, the program exits without error & without =
creating rpms, srpms or spec files.
Tested on 3 machines, 2 different OS (RHEL3 and redhat9) with perl =
v5.8.0.

I'm sorry if I missed something but I really don't find any explanation =
nor on the website nor on google.

Thanks in advance.

Ben

[Cpan2rpm-general] FASD project: Online survey launched

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[Cpan2rpm-general] --no-requires not working on RedHat 9

[Jon W. <jw...@ca...>]

It looks as though the version of RPM (rpm-4.2-0.69) on RedHat 9 (at
least) has a feature that prevents --no-requires from working. While I
accept that --no-requires is in general a 'bad thing', it's needed at
least to build perl-DBI since DBI includes an optional module that uses
Win32::ODBC, and Win32::ODBC simply can't be built on a Unix platform.

The problem is that this version of RPM only runs the dependency generator
script pointed to by __find_requires if _use_internal_dependency_generator
is set to 0. Unfortunately it's set to 1 by default (in
/usr/lib/rpm/macros). As a result the carefully-constructed custom
find_requires script that implements --no-requires never gets used and all
the dependencies find their way into the resulting RPM.

A work-around in to include

  %_use_internal_dependency_generator 0

in your ~/.rpmmacros file; a longer-term fix would be to include

  %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0

in the generated spec file if a custom find_requires script is needed.

Jon.

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