[WBEL-users] I hate perl

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:36 -0600, Dean Troyer wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:11:14 -0700, Matthew Nielsen <xunker at pyxidis.org> wrote:
> > I always have problems with DBD::mysql from the cpan shell -- usually I
> > have much better luck downloading it and installing the module from the
> > tarball (you can find it on search.cpan.org).
> 
> If you like keeping things in RPM form as much as possible (say, to
> replicate across 200 servers), cpan2rpm is your friend:
> 
> cpan2rpm DBD::mysql
> 
> or manually download the tarball and build:
> 
> cpan2rpm XML-Stream-1.17.tar.gz
> 
> The dependency building isn't perfect and may required manual
> installation of additional packages, but in the end you'll have binary
> RPMs you can add to your local repository and yum install everywhere.
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this nugget of info seems very valuable to me - it will be tested and
hopefully enjoyed...

Thanks

Craig