Re: perl pmda package install problems

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi -

> As Tadej pointed out in a related post, we're already using the 
> perl(...) syntax.
> 
> The problem for (me) is on 30+ machines with different software 
> installations, I have to answer the question ...
> 
> - which package that I have not already installed delivers the Perl 
> LWP::UserAgent module?

How about 

# yum install 'perl(LWP::UserAgent)'

or local yum equivalent?  That's the point of the virtual resource
name, it doesn't matter what the low-level rpm name is.


> and then repeat for every Perl/Python/library/executable dependency ... 

Assuming you're building/installing binaries other than distro
packages yeah.  If you do have the distro binaries, then the
package-install tooling should be able to pull in those dependencies
(once portably specified).

- FChE