CentOS - Mar 2007 - installing perl module in centos/rpmforge vs. cpan methods

Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just used RPMforge package perl-Mail-Sender, and am looking at the 
> perl cpan site for info, anyone got a simple way to determine if the 
> module is working properly?
A very superficial test. If it fails, then the module is definitely not 
working. In my case, it's not even installed:

###########################################################
$ cat perl-test
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Mail::Sender;


$ ./perl-test
Can't locate Mail/Sender.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl 
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) 
at ./perl-test line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./perl-test line 3.
############################################################

For more thorough tests, I guess you could write a simple Perl script 
and actually test the module's functionality. Can't really beat that for
accuracy in testing.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

Hi,

I just used RPMforge package perl-Mail-Sender, and am looking at the 
perl cpan site for info, anyone got a simple way to determine if the 
module is working properly?

I am trying to use the cpan info, but it's a bit cryptic (as perl is 
wont to be).

-it says to use this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use ExtUtils::Installed;
my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???";
       print "$module -- $version\n";
}

but all I get is:

Perl -- 5.8.5

which seems to indicate doing a

wget 
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-Mail-Sender/perl-Mail-Sender-0.8.13-1.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh perl-Mail-Sender-0.8.13-1.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

is either working and thie script above just cant see it, or the module 
is installed and requires some follow up.  Both of these are just 
theoretical. 

Any input from the wise listers other than "read all of cpan since you 
have a million hours free time".

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::Sender'     simply hangs on the FTP 
transaction, thus the reason I did this from RPMforge instead.

-krb