Hey folks,

Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this?
If so, maybe someone can point me to it.

Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
or not the install completed.

Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have
to think this problem has already been solved.

Thanks for any guidance you can give.

-Alan

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>Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
>CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
>that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
>or not the install completed.

While I can't answer that, I might try to actually call a Perl check after
which although slightly extra work would yield the answer.

You installing these locally in a non root users home?

If not, I can tell you that will wreak havoc if a Perl related updated
comes down the pipe via yum...
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Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this?
> If so, maybe someone can point me to it.
>
> Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
> CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
> that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
> or not the install completed.
>
> Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have
> to think this problem has already been solved.
>
> Thanks for any guidance you can give.

First suggestion would be to check if these modules are available as
rpms. Check the epel and rpmforge repositories. This will make things
go much smoother both now and when you need to update later.

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> While I can't answer that, I might try to actually call a Perl check after
> which although slightly extra work would yield the answer.

Hmmm, good point - I could do that. I've come across several methods
of checking module versions and none of them seemed "perfect" to me.
Can you recommend a method?

> You installing these locally in a non root users home?
>
> If not, I can tell you that will wreak havoc if a Perl related updated
> comes down the pipe via yum...

We don't do auto-updates on production boxes so this is not a concern.
And yeah, my other alternative would be to do it all via yum instead
of CPAN, but that would be a massive change to the system I've
inherited.


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>Hmmm, good point - I could do that. I've come across several methods
>of checking module versions and none of them seemed "perfect" to me.
>Can you recommend a method?

Well, depends if you are in Perl, or bash, but really something as simple
as:

perl -e 'use HTML::Parser;'
echo $?

Aside from the mess of Perl diag which you can redirect away, you'll get
a 0 or not.

>We don't do auto-updates on production boxes so this is not a concern.
> And yeah, my other alternative would be to do it all via yum instead
>of CPAN, but that would be a massive change to the system I've
>inherited.

Good lord no, I don't either But when you "do" update
Shame about the inheritance issue, it's not hard to install modules out
of the base location and pull them in, unless you have a mess to change
I guess...
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On 4/15/2010 3:23 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this?
> If so, maybe someone can point me to it.
>
> Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
> CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
> that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
> or not the install completed.
>
> Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have
> to think this problem has already been solved.
>
> Thanks for any guidance you can give.

Things sometimes get ugly when you mix CPAN/rpm installs. Have you
checked epel/rpmforge/etc. for the modules you need?

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:31:08PM -0400, Alan McKay (alan.mckay@gmail.com) wrote:
> > While I can't answer that, I might try to actually call a Perl check after
> > which although slightly extra work would yield the answer.

> snip

> We don't do auto-updates on production boxes so this is not a concern.
> And yeah, my other alternative would be to do it all via yum instead
> of CPAN, but that would be a massive change to the system I've
> inherited.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that this
does not matter as the RPM's plug all the stuff into the correct
locations for perl and the modules ... I use a lot of perl modules
(e.g. for mimedefang, some online stuff I do etc) and cross upgraded
a few machines, e.g. from FC6 to CentOS 5.4.

So the perl installation used to be totally CPAN based, now I upgrade
most of the stuff from YUM. So far nothing has been broken and they
are all rock solid.

So I would look for the RPM first, then for CPAN.



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Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 22:23 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
> Hey folks,
>
> Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this?
> If so, maybe someone can point me to it.
>
> Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
> CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
> that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
> or not the install completed.
>
> Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have
> to think this problem has already been solved.
>
> Thanks for any guidance you can give.
>
> -Alan
>

Alan

i do a lot of the perl CPAN RPMS at rpmforge, if oyu have any reasons to
not use them please tell and I will try to fix that.

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Christoph Maser wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 22:23 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this?
>> If so, maybe someone can point me to it.
>>
>> Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
>> CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
>> that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
>> or not the install completed.
>>
>> Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have
>> to think this problem has already been solved.
>>
>> Thanks for any guidance you can give.
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>
> Alan
>
> i do a lot of the perl CPAN RPMS at rpmforge, if oyu have any reasons to
> not use them please tell and I will try to fix that.

The main problem with 3rd party repos is that you have to be careful about
updates causing dependency conflicts, especially if you use more than one. I
normally leave the repos disabled in the yum config and explicitly use "yum
--enablerepo=reponame install packagename" to pull only the packages I want and
look carefully at the list of dependencies.

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Hi,
i don't know exactly if this would be usable for yourself, but very nice
feature for our purposes is autobundling, see for example:
http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.9402/lib/CPAN.pm#POPULATE_AN_INSTALLATION_WITH_LOTS_OF_MODU LES
or
http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/cgi-perl/automate-perl-module-deployment-050426/page4.html


As for RPMs, it could be sometimes problem with versions. RPMs aren't
often the most recent versions of modules and resolving RPM dependencies
could sometimes overwrite the most uptodate versions (which you need) by
slightly older which may not be applicable. But this really depends...


Tomas


Thu, Apr 15, 2010 ve 04:23:32PM -0400, Alan McKay napsal:
> Hey folks,
>
> Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this?
> If so, maybe someone can point me to it.
>
> Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of
> CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is
> that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether
> or not the install completed.
>
> Google does not bring up a whole lot of help for me here, but I have
> to think this problem has already been solved.
>
> Thanks for any guidance you can give.
>
> -Alan
>
> --
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> - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
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