SOLUTION: SA needs perl(Parse::Syslog) and perl(Statistics::Distributions) on FC2

[Thomas Cameron <th...@camerontech.com>]

Howdy all -

I downloaded Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0.tar.bz2 and used the included 
spamassassin.spec file to build RPMs on my Fedora Core 2 machine.  However, 
when I tried to install them I got an error telling me that I needed 
perl(Parse::Syslog) and perl(Statistics::Distributions).

The search for RPMs for these Perl modules stumped me - I could only find a 
SUSE SRPM for perl(Parse::Syslog) that wouldn't rebuild correctly on FC2.

After screwing around and googling around quite a bit I found the most 
excellent cpan2rpm package at http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/.  It allowed me 
to grab the
perl(Parse::Syslog) and perl(Statistics::Distributions) tarballs from the 
CPAN site and create RPMs for them in seconds.

I know that to many of you Perl mavens this is probably old news but I had 
not seen it before.  To a non-developer like me cpan2rpm is a complete 
Godsend.

Now on to Razor, Pyzor and DCC!

Thanks!
Thomas