Re: fink

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From: Paul Orrock
Subject: Re: fink
Date: 18:16 on 04 Nov 2004
David Champion wrote:
> 
> CPAN itself is mostly rather nice, though... when I must use perl, which
> is altogether too often, I appreciate it.
> 

For those few CPAN modules not under debian package management

dh-make-perl --build --cpan Foo::Blah

is your friend and gives you debian packages that you can then put on all your other servers and just dpkg -i them :-)

I've only ever known it fail when a cpan install would fail (usually due to some not installed C library but one apt-get later and away you go)

Paul.

There's stuff above here

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