Rpm

Introduction To build a Perl module on openSUSE or other distributions, you need a file with build instructions. For rpm that’s usually a file called package-name.spec. See also General packaging guidelines and the Perl packaging guidelines. In Open Build Service devel:languages:perl we currently have over 3100 perl packages. That would not have been possible without some automation. In this post I will describe how cpanspec can create spec files automatically, and how it can even update spec files for a new release without overriding manual changes from before. [Read More]