YAPC::NA 2008 abstract

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