Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there Monks,

I need to be able to encapsulate the results of installing Perl from source ...

$ wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf perl-5.10.1.tar.gz
$ cd perl-5.10.1
$ sh Configure -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/some/where/perl -de
$ sudo make
$ sudo make test
$ sudo make install
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... into any RPM.

Does any monk know where I can find a ".spec" file?

Thanks!

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Re: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by shmem (Chancellor) on Jan 22, 2010 at 23:20 UTC
Get cpanspec. Calling it with a CPAN tgz will build the specfile for that package. That's for Fedora, but it will work for other GNU/Linux distros as well, twiddling it a bit. You might want to build cpanspec with itself into a RPM ;-) Then there is also cpan2rpm. But cpanspec is more up to date. update: for perl itself, all RPM based GNU/Linux distributions have the source RPM package in their repositories. It includes the spec file. Just get it and install it with `rpm -i`. Another way to do it: `rpm2cpio perl-5.8.8-27.el5.src.rpm \| cpio -i perl.spec`.To extract the complete source RPM (spec file, tar ball, patches, scripts) just omit the `perl.spec`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by saberworks (Curate) on Jan 23, 2010 at 00:44 UTC
If you have the perl source rpm you can just extract the spec file (according to this forum post, although I've not tried it myself): `You can extract the spec file from a source rpm file (some times a bin +ary rpm file), using command: rpm2cpio {FullNameOfRPM} \| cpio -iumd {NameOfRPM.spec}` [download] Isn't Fedora open source? Can't you just find where their repository is and do a checkout?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2010 at 23:24 UTC
The way I understand it you're supposed to create the .spec	[reply]
Re^2: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2010 at 23:42 UTC
Thanks anonymous monk. I think this is more what I am looking for. I want to make an RPM that will install Perl not Perl Modules. I am wondering if there is an "official" spec file already out there somewhere that is being used for the Redhat perl RPM that I can use as a starting point?	[reply]
Re^3: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2010 at 23:50 UTC
Seems like that is a question for RedHat :)	[reply]
Re^4: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2010 at 23:56 UTC
Re: Where can I find the spec file for the Perl RPM? by phenom (Chaplain) on Jan 23, 2010 at 13:51 UTC
You can try here and see how Fedora does it: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/perl/F-12/	[reply]


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