Perl on Fedora

By Steven Pritchard from St Louis.pm
Date: Monday, June 16, 2008 03:40 PM
Duration: 70 minutes
Target audience: All
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You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Abstract: http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2008/03/yapcna-2008-abstract.html
• Talk: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc4txvcb_0hkpj7dgx

This talk will cover the current state of Perl development in Fedora (and, by extension, RHEL, CentOS, etc.). Topics will include the following:

* Status of Perl on Fedora
** Perl SIG
** Number of Perl modules available in Fedora and EPEL
** What we have and what we're missing
** Licensing

* Using Perl packages
** Using virtual rpm dependencies
** yum, repoquery, etc.

* Packaging Perl modules
** Generating packages using cpanspec
** Building packages with rpmbuild
** Using mock
** Checking for problems with rpmlint
** Submitting packages for inclusion in Fedora