notes for making a customized perl .deb

make-perl-deb

#!/bin/sh

# step 1 - compile perl {{{

/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/bin/perl /root/p/bin/perlbrew install perl-5.18.1 --notest -Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib -Dcf_by=Dave -Dcf_email=dave@instantchannelinc.com -Duse64bitall -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN

# }}}
# step 2 - install cpan modules with newly compiled perl {{{

PERL5=/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1
BIN_PERL5=$PERL5/bin/perl
BIN_CPANM=/root/bin/cpanm
PERL5_IC=/root/deb/perl5-ic

# change Config_heavy.pl before any `make install`s happen so that the shebang of installed programs points to /opt/perl5/bin
perl -i.bak -pe "s,startperl=.*$,startperl='#!/opt/perl5/bin/perl'," $PERL5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/Config_heavy.pl
# Unfortunately, some modules still install their binaries to the wrong place.

$BIN_PERL5 $BIN_CPANM --notest \
App::Ack \
App::cpanminus \
Carp \
Crypt::CBC \
Crypt::Rijndael \
Crypt::TEA  \
Data::Dumper \
Data::Random::WordList \
Data::UUID \
Data::Validate::IP \
DateTime \
Email::Date::Format \
Email::Format \
Email::Send \
Email::Sender::Simple \
Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP::Persistent \
Encode \
Exporter \
ExtUtils::MakeMaker \
File::Copy \
File::Spec \
File::Temp \
File::Touch \
Getopt::Long \
Getopt::Std \
HTML::FormatText::WithLinks \
HTTP::Cookies \
HTTP::Lite \
HTTP::Request \
HTTP::Response \
IO::File \
IO::Socket::Telnet \
IPC::Open2 \
JSON \
List::Util \
LWP \
LWP::Protocol::https \
LWP::UserAgent \
Mail::RFC822::Address \
MIME::Base64 \
MIME::Base64::Perl \
MIME::QuotedPrint \
Modern::Perl \
Net::DNS \
Net::Nslookup \
parent \
Pod::Usage \
POSIX \
Schedule::RateLimiter \
String::Random \
Template \
Template::Stash::XS \
Text::Wrap \
Thread::Queue \
threads \
threads::shared \
Thread::Use \
Time::Duration \
Time::HiRes \
XML::Bare \
XML::LibXML \
YAML

# Email::Format = doesn't exist
# Crypt::TEA = build error

# }}}
# step 2.5 - recompile perl again with right paths {{{
perl -i.bak -pe 's,/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1,/opt/perl5,g' /root/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.18.1/config.h 
pushd /root/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.18.1
make && make install
popd

# }}}
# step 3 - copy to debian directory {{{
mkdir -p $PERL5_IC/DEBIAN
mkdir -p $PERL5_IC/opt/perl5
cp -a $PERL5/* $PERL5_IC/opt/perl5
cat <<EOF > $PERL5_IC/DEBIAN/control
Package: perl5-ic
Version: 5.18.1-1
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Architecture: amd64
Depends:
Maintainer: Instant Channel
Description: Our binary Perl dist
EOF

# }}}
# step 4 - change paths in Config.pm, Config_heavy.pl, and elsewhere {{{
sed 's,/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1,/opt/perl5,g' < $PERL5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/Config.pm       > $PERL5_IC/opt/perl5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/Config.pm
sed 's,/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1,/opt/perl5,g' < $PERL5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/Config_heavy.pl > $PERL5_IC/opt/perl5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/Config_heavy.pl

chrpath -r /opt/perl5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/CORE $PERL5_IC/opt/perl5/bin/perl 
chrpath -r /opt/perl5/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/CORE $PERL5_IC/opt/perl5/bin/perl5.18.1 

# }}}
# step 5 - create .deb {{{
dpkg-deb --build $PERL5_IC 

## How to install and uninstall
# dpkg -i perl5-ic.deb
# dpkg -r perl5-ic

# }}}


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