Revision history for cpan2rpm

2.007  2002/12/17 20:35:48
- fixed problem with building packages that define neither DISTNAME nor NAME in the call to MakeMaker(), resulting in an unwriteable filename which included a given url.  Thanks to Rainer Lay for pointing this out.  the script broke building the C<Class-MethodMaker> package.
- changed all references to $RPM_BUILD_ROOT to the more flexible %{buildroot}
- style change in opening files from open(F, $f) to open(_)

2.006  2002/12/16 19:00:00
- Fix -make-maker option bug.
- Avoid full range of the MakeMaker bug.
  5.91_01 <= ExtUtils::MakeMaker <= 6.05
- Add MakeMaker check to spec for RH 8.0.

2.005  2002/12/12 17:00:00
- Added -V option to return cpan2rpm version.
- Added --shadow-pure option to hide previous
  installations of pure perl modules while
  installing new versions of the same module.

2.004  2002/12/10 12:00:00
- Moved changelog from cpan2rpm into Changes file.
- Unbreak the PREFIX= bug from Revision 1.81.
- Now works with both perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.0.
- Specifically buttwag around MakeMaker 6.03 bugs.

2.003  2002/11/26 18:19:13
- Safer to pipe stderr to /dev/null than to hope
  that the rmdir on the local platform supports
  the --ignore-fail-on-non-empty flag.

2.002  2002/11/25 21:18:48  ekkis
- minor modification to pick up the DISTNAME, from the call to WriteMakefile() in Makefile.PL, whenever available.  thanks to Nick Eggleston, who first noticed this with the MailTools package, for pointing it out.
- added language to man page about support

2.001  2002/11/23 01:54:30
Bump VERSION to 2.001 to be CPAN compliant.
No function changes.

2.0  2002/11/23 01:48:09
Final Release 2.0

Revision 1.82  2002/11/20 01:11:15  bbb
Need binmode file handles to avoid corrupting tarball contents.
Tested and it finally works with perl 5.8.0 (RedHat 8.0) distro.

Revision 1.81  2002/11/19 23:39:32  bbb
Move PREFIX=... from "make install" part to "perl Makefile.PL" part
in order to comply with perl 5.8.0 MakeMaker (RedHat 8.0).

Revision 1.80  2002/11/18 15:39:12  bbb
Add --ignore-fail-on-non-empty to avoid this spewage:

+ find /var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr -type d -depth -exec rmdir '{}' ';'
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/DNS/RR': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/DNS': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib/perl5': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/lib': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/share/man/man3': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/share/man': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr/share': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/var/tmp/perl-Net-DNS-0.31-rob/usr': Directory not empty

Fix --make-no-test doc typo.

Revision 1.79  2002/11/16 03:29:44  ekkis
- added --make-no-test
- small patch to README

Revision 1.78  2002/11/15 18:31:47  ekkis
- included rpm-build patch submitted by Hook-BOT
- added --req-scan-all

Revision 1.77  2002/11/14 02:54:57  ekkis
minor fix for new find (needed \\; for -exec)

Revision 1.76  2002/11/14 02:26:22  ekkis
thanks to Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de) for the following suggestions:
- added --no-clean
- generalised calls to make, perl and other external programs with %{__make} macros, etc.
- replaced find call to require fewer external program dependencies

Revision 1.75  2002/11/08 20:24:06  bbb
Should "make test" too.
Maybe there should be an option to skip the "make test"?

Revision 1.74  2002/11/08 19:48:45  bbb
If libwww-perl is not installed,
show helpful warning,
then try some external programs:
wget, lynx, links, ncftpget
in that order.
And fix compile error from last commit.  :-)

Revision 1.73  2002/11/08 18:12:45  bbb
sudo success notification also.

Revision 1.72  2002/11/08 17:52:45  bbb
Explain how to configure sudo if needed.

Revision 1.71  2002/11/07 23:21:25  ekkis
wiped TODO since Rob knocked it out

Revision 1.70  2002/11/07 02:58:13  bbb
Better sudo error.

Revision 1.69  2002/11/07 02:40:31  bbb
Add sudo precheck.

Revision 1.68  2002/11/07 02:14:51  bbb
Use ~/redhat structure for non-root users.

Revision 1.67  2002/11/07 01:59:13  bbb
Removed --searchcpan flag.  (Forced on.)

Revision 1.66  2002/11/07 01:02:06  bbb
sudo to install if non-root

Revision 1.65  2002/11/07 00:34:54  bbb
Removed no-localcopy functionality to avoid making local copies of output files.

Revision 1.64  2002/11/07 00:24:58  bbb
More general instead of hard coding "i386" for buildarch.

Revision 1.63  2002/11/06 23:58:43  bbb
Works on RedHat 8.0 now too.

Revision 1.62  2002/11/06 18:39:41  bbb
Allow --install to upgrade from an old CPAN module.

Revision 1.61  2002/11/06 18:32:07  bbb
bad debug typo

Revision 1.60  2002/11/06 17:55:33  bbb
Documental changes.

Revision 1.59  2002/11/06 17:46:21  bbb
Now cpan2rpm rpm itself may be created purely
from the tarball to avoid CHICKEN-AND-EGG dilemma.
Usage:

  rpm -ta cpan2rpm-*.tar.gz


Added a --searchcpan option to walk search.cpan.org
for the latest tarball of the passed module.  Does
not require the CPAN module for this functionality.

Revision 1.58  2002/11/06 00:57:50  bbb
Use generic cpan author from url if no other author could be extracted.

Revision 1.57  2002/11/06 00:08:29  bbb
Allow --nopkgprfx to be compatible with --install option.

Revision 1.56  2002/11/05 23:52:13  bbb
Avoid broken ( " " ) VERSION.
Fix mkdir logic.
Work for multiple users on the same machine.
Fix --spec-only to really only output the spec contents.

Revision 1.55  2002/11/05 20:55:11  bbb
Oop, handle tabs correctly.

Revision 1.54  2002/11/05 20:32:53  bbb
Try LWP in case HTTP::Lite is not installed.
anal whitespace (nasty tabs)

Revision 1.53  2002/09/19 03:53:05  ekkis
patched to fix problem with tarballs that contain a leading ./ instead of just a directory name.  thx to Jim Radford <radford@robotics.caltech.edu> for pointing this out.

Revision 1.52  2002/09/19 03:37:21  ekkis
- added no-localcopy functionality to make local copies of output files
- made %setup section more generic
- patched use of HTTP::Lite
- rearranged POD to have Author on a single line and added acknowledgements and license info

Revision 1.51  2002/09/13 21:48:34  bbb
Only use one line of the AUTHOR perldoc section to avoid breaking rpm spec syntax.

Revision 1.50  2002/06/28 01:22:41  ekkis
- our thanks to Jim Radford <radford@robotics.caltech.edu> for all the suggestions and patches resulting in this batch of changes
- added --patch, --make and --make-install for greater flexibility
- fixed regexp generating %doc list.  code now picks up documentation in subdirectories
- modified use of HTTP::Lite to make optional.  cpan2rpm now works without it (minus capability to fetch urls)
- README file now shows how to boot-strap HTTP::Lite

Revision 1.49  2002/06/03 14:17:11  bbb
Add username to buildroot to avoid multi-user machine conflicts.

Revision 1.48  2002/06/01 01:07:38  ekkis
minor POD change

Revision 1.47  2002/06/01 01:04:24  ekkis
- now uses the POD's Synopsis section for the RPM Description tag.  This is the way it should be since POD Descriptions typically contain large amounts of text.
- Rewrote Synopsis and Description sections of the POD

Revision 1.46  2002/05/31 23:59:33  ekkis
- changed shebang line to make MakeMaker happy (thx Hook BOT)

Revision 1.45  2002/05/31 23:35:40  ekkis
- redesigned the %files section (at the suggestion of Eric Kolve [ekolve@corp.classmates.com]) to fix problems with modules that contain XS e.g. DBI
- added a smart %doc section which picks up documentation from the tarball (with help from Hook-BOT (Bob Brown <bbb@cpan.org>) for file regexp)
- now uses %{_prefix} to list files which is better than /usr since it allows redefinition e.g. _prefix=/usr/local (Hook-BOT)
- trimmed descriptions and reformatted ad banner
- improved %clean section with code that wipes the extracted source tree structure after building (which can bloat disk badly when doing a lot of rpms) - thx Hook-BOT!
- fixed --spec-only (thx Eric Kolve)

Revision 1.44  2002/05/29 16:32:10  bbb
~/.rpmmacros

Revision 1.43  2002/05/28 23:32:29  ekkis
changed e-mail addresses

Revision 1.42  2002/05/28 23:13:28  bbb
Same as second round "1.3" but in the right place now.

Revision 1.5  2002/05/23 02:55:37  ekkis
adding "use strict" forces Makefile.PL to be eval()uated that way so had to add "no strict" to eval string.  Also added warning in case eval fails.

Revision 1.4  2002/05/23 02:43:43  ekkis
added use strict

Revision 1.3  2002/05/23 02:14:04  ekkis
oops, small patch

Revision 1.2  2002/05/23 02:13:07  ekkis
added --nopkgprfx in case we want to build RPMs without a prepended "perl-" (as in the case of cpan2rpm<g>)

Revision 1.1  2002/05/22 23:47:59  ekkis
Moved from dist to .

Revision 1.40  2002/05/22 23:03:35  ekkis
since we're no longer including the package version number in the spec filename when building multiple versions of the same package we're force to --force.  this makes no sense to the script will now _always_ build the spec file

Revision 1.39  2002/05/19 01:04:44  ekkis
still haveing problem with DBI - couldn't figure out how to eval() Makefile.PL so assuming pkgname from module (or passed)

Revision 1.38  2002/05/18 22:55:00  ekkis
- patched to allow calls like "use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(WriteMakefile)"... note this currently only works with () and will fail with qw//.  Due to DBI calls.
- also changed MyExit() to die() instead since we really do need for the script to exit but without exiting us!
- patched to allow for calls like  ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile() as found in DBD::mysql

Revision 1.37  2002/05/07 04:21:49  ekkis
added --make-maker parameter

Revision 1.36  2002/04/23 00:29:24  ekkis
- implemented protection of my variables from Makefile.PL being eval()d by surrounding that code with a package.  Considered the Safe module but decided against another dependency.

Revision 1.35  2002/04/22 23:19:13  ekkis
--provides and --requires weren't working

Revision 1.34  2002/04/18 08:32:53  ekkis
- put back code to generate name/e-mail addr of packager (uses hostname())
- added END {} code to make sure we clean up.  $SIG{__DIE__} works only for die() calls
- now picks up AUTHOR from tarball POD when possible
- modified version parsing code to allow versions with alpha
- redesigned tarls().  now context sensitive, much better way to determine embedded directory
- writefile() now checks for existence

Revision 1.33  2002/04/17 08:52:43  ekkis
- some bug fixes
- {force} implementation for get_url()

Revision 1.32  2002/04/17 08:40:50  ekkis
- added --no-requires, --find-provides, --find-requires and --install options
- now can receive a URL to download from
- reimplemented MyExit for eval()ing Makefile.PL
- enhancements to writefile()

Revision 1.31  2002/04/16 04:06:53  ekkis
ripped out all dependency (provides,requires) generation code as the newer rpm-buid generates this correctly

Revision 1.30  2002/04/12 17:22:35  ekkis
- filelist is now abstracted
- cool new method for extracting CVS version without breaking emacs
- new regexp for splitting path/filename from given $info{module}

Revision 1.29  2002/04/09 23:00:16  ekkis
took out %define version and release as it causes recursive behaviour

Revision 1.28  2002/04/09 22:20:41  ekkis
- better relative path handling
- now prepends url to Source: field when available via CPAN
- BuildRoot more automated now

Revision 1.27  2002/04/09 08:25:00  ekkis
- now requires version 0.59 or greater of CPAN as previous versions are problema tic
- implemented use of RPM macros to figure outdirectory structures.  script now p arses the various macro definition files and does recursive expansions to figure out correct values... see docs.
- added support for a full-path tarball specification.  this allows the user to call cpan2rpm with any tarball anywhere.  The tarball will be copied to SOURCES.
- defined %version, %release
- added Rob Brown's perlver %defines
- BuildRoot now defaults to the standard %{_tmpdir}
- removed version number from spec filename
- now scans only usr/lib in tmpdir for modules (should give better Provides headers since we don't pick up .pm files in other directories like examples/)
- added code to figure out real module dependencies (PREREQ_PM is unreliable)
- now attempts to read VERSION_FROM if neither ABSTRACT nor ABSTRACT_FROM is provided.  failing that it will take the module name (minus any parent info, plus appropriate extension e.g. Ping.pm from Net::Ping), and if that file exists will scan it for POD

Revision 1.26  2002/04/08 22:30:35  ekkis
now requires CPAN version 0.59 as previous versions seem broken
added to TODO list

Revision 1.25  2002/04/07 09:18:19  ekkis
hijacked exit() for the Makefile.PL eval since certain modules exit on us (not very exciting) e.g. POE

Revision 1.24  2002/04/07 02:31:00  ekkis
fixed generation of dependencies on Perl core modules (not allowed)

Revision 1.23  2002/04/07 01:15:33  ekkis
removed dashed lines from CHANGES section... don't konw thy CVS does use this in keyword expansion!

Revision 1.22  2002/04/07 01:12:24  ekkis
added old Log info

Revision 1.21  2002/04/07 01:09:01  ekkis
tarball maker now calls system() instead of qx// so user can see prompts
added CHANGES section

revision 1.20
date: 2002/04/07 00:06:20;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -1
added back author info retrieval from CPAN when possible

revision 1.19
date: 2002/04/06 23:45:25;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
added availability section to pod

revision 1.18
date: 2002/04/06 23:43:00;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -8
changed default for license to "Artistic" as most modules are released under Perl's own license.

revision 1.17
date: 2002/04/06 23:13:31;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
removed spaces before =head1 NAME - he cares!!

revision 1.16
date: 2002/04/06 23:03:28;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
a fix for a fix

revision 1.15
date: 2002/04/06 22:51:36;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
fixed docs

revision 1.14
date: 2002/04/06 22:47:40;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +33 -19
added --debug
added -n in calls to silence questions from Makefile.PL (may not always work)
now makes sure /tmp/cpan2rpm exists, creates as needed

revision 1.13
date: 2002/04/06 02:34:15;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -1
status info

revision 1.12
date: 2002/04/06 01:57:31;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -5
enhancement for f2mod() to generate RPM dependencies

revision 1.11
date: 2002/04/06 01:51:22;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +71 -68
various fixes
incorporated provides() into get_meta()
correctly generates Provides header

revision 1.10
date: 2002/04/06 00:01:15;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +55 -22
added f2mod()
enhancements to untar()
now generates Provides headers

revision 1.9
date: 2002/04/05 22:37:05;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +167 -102
major code reorg
now uses ExtUtils::Installed for platform independent module listings
added --provides and --spec-only

revision 1.8
date: 2002/04/05 05:29:57;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
fixed regexp for tardir

revision 1.7
date: 2002/04/05 02:07:25;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +33 -20
now eval()s Makefile.PL instead of parsing it
also looks up DESCRIPTION from module file for spec file

revision 1.6
date: 2002/04/04 03:55:27;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
fixed embedded >s in C<> tags

revision 1.5
date: 2002/04/04 03:47:34;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -5
added author support

revision 1.4
date: 2002/04/04 02:20:32;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +105 -83
general cleanup
now excepts core Perl modules from RPM dependencies
now supports ABSTRACT_FROM
improved PREREQ_PM handling (with Provides: clause)

revision 1.3
date: 2002/04/03 12:33:14;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +38 -18
various bug fixes

revision 1.2
date: 2002/04/03 11:08:32;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +144 -142
now retrieves metadata from tarball

revision 1.1
date: 2002/04/03 10:57:00;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;
branches:  1.1.1;
Initial revision

revision 1.1.1.1
date: 2002/04/03 10:57:00;  author: ekkis;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0
Initial import
