[Koha-devel] Koha Perl Dependencies PPA

[Chris Cormack]

On 22 February 2010 09:33, Braedon Vickers <braedon at tw.co.nz> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After installing assorted versions of Koha on Ubuntu numerous times over
> the last few weeks, one of the major speedbumps I always seemed to have
> was retrieving the Perl dependencies not in the standard Ubuntu
> repositories from CPAN. After it was suggested to me on #koha, I put
> together a PPA to serve these as Debian packages instead.
>
> Unfortunately, prior to this I had no experience with Debian packaging,
> and didn't really have the time to learn properly, so the packages I
> have build are generated by "dh-make-perl" (a very handy tool), with a
> few minor changes to fix dependency generation errors.
>
> As such, two requests. Firstly, to anyone who runs Koha on Ubuntu9.10,
> some testing of the packages would be great of you could spare the time.
> Secondly, to anyone with any experience with Debian packaging, if you
> would like to provide advice, or even take over this project, it would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> The PPA can be found here:
> https://launchpad.net/~braedon-vickers/+archive/kohaperl
> The packages are all the required CPAN Perl modules for git HEAD Koha as
> of the 17th of February.
>
Very cool, I hope that people help you keep it up to date, it will
make peoples lives a lot easier :)

Chris