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