NAME

CPAN::Packager::Manual - User manual

USER MANUAL

This is the CPAN::Packager users manual.

DESCRIPTION

cpan-packager creates RPM and Deb packages of CPAN distributions. Given a module name, cpan-packager will automatically analyze dependencies, download, build, test, provision, and install packages.

SETUP
How to setup cpan-packager
Installation
Install CPAN::Packager from CPAN.

cpan CPAN::Packager

Additional setup for redhat users
Apply patches/rpm/perlreq.patch to /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req. Otherwise, perl.req extracts needles module dependencies.

Additional setup for debian users
Copy conf/debian/rules* to the ~/.dh-make-perl directory. Otherwise, you may experience conflicts. For example: perllocal.pod.

HOW TO USE CPAN-PACKAGER SCRIPT
RPMs
$ sudo cpan-packager --module Test::Exception --builder RPM --conf \ conf/config-rpm.yaml --verbose

The resulting package may be found at: ~/.cpanpackager/rpm

Debs
$ sudo cpan-packager --module Test::Exception --builder Deb --conf \ conf/config-deb.yaml --verbose

The resulting package may be found at: ~/.cpanpackager/deb

Options

• --builder (required)

  The builder you'd like to use to build the module. Either "RPM" or "Deb".

• --conf (required)

  The local filesystem path to your CPAN::Packager configuration file. An example configuration file is available at:

  http://github.com/dann/p5-cpan-packager/tree/master/conf/

  If you're building RPM's, you'll want the 'config-rpm.yaml' configuration file.

  If you're building Deb's, you'll want the 'config-deb.yaml' configuration file.

• --module (required)

  The name of the module that you'd like to build. For example: Test::Reporter.

• --always-build (optional; default skips builds of installed modules)

  Always build CPAN modules even if the module is already installed.

• --verbose (optional)

  Emit additional information and diagnostics.

• --modulelist (optional; discouraged)

  The path to a file containing the list of modules that should be built. There should be one module per line. For example:

         Foo::Bar
         Wibble::Plink

CONFIGURATION

The configuration file is YAML-based and is comprised of two main sections, the "global" section, and the "modules" section. The configuration schema is defined in: CPAN::Packager::Config::Schema

The "global" configuration section.
This section defines common configuration entities.

• cpan_mirrors

  Accepts one or more CPAN mirror arguments. These mirrors are used to retrieve the module(s) being packaged in addition to their dependencies. For example, a local CPAN::Mini mirror, or a "real" mirror may be referenced:

  • file:///home/dann/minicpan/
  • http://cpan.pair.com/
  • ftp://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/

An example configuration section for "cpan_mirrors" may look like:

         ---
         global:
           cpan_mirrors:
             - http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
             - file:///home/dann/minicpan

• fix_package_depends

  Correct misspelt package name.

  • from

    The incorrect module name which you want to fix.

  • to

    The correct module name.

• no_depends

  Suppresses generation of a given required dependency. Sometimes authors create dependencies on modules the packager can't find This allows the packager to arbitrarily supress a given requirement.

  • module

    The module which you don't want to depend.

• skip_name_resolve_modules

  Skip module name resolution.

  • module

    The module which you want to skip name resolution.

• fix_module_name

  Fix incorrect module name.

  • from

    The incorrect module name which you want to fix.

  • to

    The correct module name.

The "modules" configuration section
This section defines module-specific configuration entities.

• module

  Specifies the module to which this configuration applies. For example: Test::Reporter.

• no_depends

  Forcefully removes module dependencies.

  • module

    Given module is removed from the dependency list of the package being built. For example: Test::Reporter.

• depends

  Forcefully adds module dependencies.

  • module

    Given module is added to the dependency list of the package being built. For example: Test::Reporter.

• skip_test

  Causes "make test" to be skipped for given module. This is useful when you don't want a module's failing tests to prevent the module from being built and installed.

• force_build

  Build the package forcefully if the package is installed already.

• custom

  This is useful if you want to fetch modules from CPAN and use patched CPAN module.

  • tgz_path

    The file path of gzipped tarball containing CPAN source.

  • src_dir

    The directory path of CPAN module source direcotry which contains Makefile.PL or Build.PL

  • version

    The distribution version.

  • dist_name

    The CPAN module name.

  • patches

    Allows for specifying patch files to be inserted into the spec file and applied when building the source.

• version

  The CPAN module version.

• release

  This specifies the release of the package itself (not the module that's being packaged). This is most commonly used when you want to re-package the same version of a given module. You may want to do this, for example, if the original packaging was somehow in error, or perhaps if you want to adjust the package's metadata.

• pkg_name

  Ordinarilly, a module like, for example, Test::Reporter would be given a package name of perl-Test-Reporter (RPM) or libtest-reporter-perl (Deb), by default. However, if for some reason you need to define your own package name, this option will allow you to do just that. This can be useful in conjunction with the "obsoletes" option, if you need to forcefully "override" an existing "identical" package on the system.

• epoch

  This option specifies the epoch of a package. This is primarily useful in the situation where, for example, RPM's version comparison algorithm isn't doing what you expect. Bumping the epoch integer up will force RPM to consider the package as being newer even if it would ordinarily consider it being older, version-wise.

• obsoletes

  Accepts multiple "package" arguments. Causes the package being built to obsolete the given packages.

  • package

    In the case of RPM, an example package argument may be: perl-Compress-Zlib. For example, since the IO-Compress distribution superceeds and deprecates the Compress-Zlib distribution, the configuration section for the IO::Compress module may obsolete the perl-Compress-Zlib package, as above.

MISCELLANEOUS
Using cpan-packager with minicpan
You may use CPAN::Packager with minicpan. First, establish your local minicpan mirror:

minicpan -r http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ -l ~/minicpan

Then, just set the path to your local minicpan mirror in your configuration file:

     ---
     global:
       cpan_mirrors:
         - file:///home/dann/minicpan

Applying patches to tarballs for RPM builds Write the module's configuration as such:

• module: Acme

  custom

  tgz_path: ~/.cpanpackager/custom_module/Acme-1.11111.tar.gz patches:

  • ~/.cpanpackager/custom_module/acme_test.patch dist_name: Acme version: 1.11111

The patch should, for example, look like:

        --- Acme-1.11111/t/acme.t.orig 2010-01-26 22:26:51.000000000 +0900
        +++ Acme-1.11111/t/acme.t   2010-01-26 22:26:39.000000000 +0900
        @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
         use lib 't', 'lib';
         use strict;
         use warnings;
        -use Test::More tests => 2;
        +use Test::More tests => 3;
         use Acme;
         
     ok(acme->is_acme);
         ok(acme->is_perfect);
        +ok 1;

Specify installation location (optional) It is possible for a CPAN::Packager user to explicitly specify installation locations for a distribution's libraries, documentation, man pages, binaries, and scripts. Setting both of the below environment variables, for example, will accomplish this.

     PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR=/usr/local/share/man/man1
     INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR=/usr/local/share/man/man3
     INSTALLVENDORBIN=/usr/local/bin INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT=/usr/local/bin"

     PERL_MB_OPT="--config installvendorman1dir=/usr/local/share/man/man1
     --config installvendorman3dir=/usr/local/share/man/man3 --config
     installvendorbin=/usr/local/bin --config installvendorscript=/usr/local/bin"

Additionally, for RPMs, you may specify the directory in which non-man documentation (Changes, README, etc) are installed via adding an entry to your ~/.rpmmacros file:

%_defaultdocdir /usr/local/share/doc

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Environment variable "CPAN_PACKAGER_TEST_LIVE" can be used to execute live tests.

Environment variable "CPAN_PACKAGER_ENABLE_DUMP" can be used to dump variables.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to this project's GitHub repository at:

http://github.com/dann/p5-cpan-packager/issues

Thank you!

AUTHOR

Takatoshi Kitano <kitano.tk@gmail.com>