CPAN::Packager - CPAN::Packager is yet another packager

What is CPAN::Packager

CPAN::Packager is a tool to help you make packages from perl modules on CPAN. This makes it so easy to make a perl module into a Redhat/Debian package

INSTALLATION

CPAN::Packager installation is straightforward. If your CPAN shell is set up, you should just be able to do

% cpan CPAN::Packager

Download it, unpack it, then build it as per the usual:

% perl Makefile.PL
% make && make test

Then install it:

% make install

How to use

case1: build a module

sudo cpan-packager --module Test::Exception --builder Deb --conf conf/config.yaml 

case2: build multiple modules at a time

sudo cpan-packager --modulelist modulelist.txt --builder RPM --conf conf/config.yaml 

options --module module name (required option) --builder Deb or RPM (optional. default is Deb) --conf configuration file path (required) --always-build always build cpan modules if module is aready installed (optional) --modulelist File containing a list of modules that should be built. (optional)

RPM/Deb Packages are generated at /tmp/cpanpackager/{deb or rpm}

config.yaml is located at github repo.

See http://github.com/dann/cpan-packager/tree/master

Please see the configuration schema if you want to write config your self. you can see schema like below.

perldoc CPAN::Packager::Config::Schema

Takatoshi Kitano