At Magnum we have a firm rule that all CPAN modules on our machines are installed from RPMs. The Fedora and Centos projects build RPMs for many CPAN modules, but there are always ones missing and the ones that are available often lag behind the most up to date versions.
For that reason, we build a lot of RPMs of CPAN modules. And we don't want to keep that work to ourselves, so on these pages we make them available for anyone to download.
Currently we have RPMs available for the following distributions (as these are the distributions that we use):
These repositories are built to work with yum, the standard command line package manager for Fedora and Centos. In order to to use these repositories with yum on your system you should download the correct configuration file (either Fedora or Centos) and place it in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. This will also add the Magnum repository to the list available from the GUI package management tool PackageKit. I'll be creating RPMs for these configuation files shortly.
Note that the RPMs from this repository are not currently signed. This is something that I want to add add as soon as possible.
In the not too distant future we hope to automate the building of these RPMs so that a new version will appear here soon after it is uploaded to CPAN. Watch this space for more details on that.
Finally, we've started a project which is investigating the possibility of automatically building RPMs from all of CPAN. This project is only in its very early stages, but we have a mailing list and if you have any interest in this area then we would welcome your input. Please subscribe to the mailing list.
If you have any questions about our RPMs or would like to suggest new CPAN modules for us to convert to RPMs then please email rpm@mag-sol.com.