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PAR::Dist - Create and manipulate PAR distributions
This document describes version 0.47 of PAR::Dist, released November 29, 2009.
As a shell command:
% perl -MPAR::Dist -eblib_to_par
In programs:
use PAR::Dist;
my $dist = blib_to_par(); # make a PAR file using ./blib/
install_par($dist); # install it into the system
uninstall_par($dist); # uninstall it from the system
sign_par($dist); # sign it using Module::Signature
verify_par($dist); # verify it using Module::Signature
install_par("http://foo.com/DBI-1.37-MSWin32-5.8.0.par"); # works too
install_par("http://foo.com/DBI-1.37"); # auto-appends archname + perlver
install_par("cpan://SMUELLER/PAR-Packer-0.975"); # uses CPAN author directory
This module creates and manipulates PAR distributions. They are architecture-specific PAR files, containing everything under blib/ of CPAN distributions after their "make" or "Build" stage, a META.yml describing metadata of the original CPAN distribution, and a MANIFEST detailing all files within it. Digitally signed PAR distributions will also contain a SIGNATURE file.
The naming convention for such distributions is:
$NAME-$VERSION-$ARCH-$PERL_VERSION.par
For example, "PAR-Dist-0.01-i386-freebsd-5.8.0.par" corresponds to the 0.01 release of "PAR-Dist" on CPAN, built for perl 5.8.0 running on "i386-freebsd".
Several functions are exported by default. Unless otherwise noted, they can take either a hash of named arguments, a single argument (taken as $path by "blib_to_par" and $dist by other functions), or no arguments (in which case the first PAR file in the current directory is used).
Therefore, under a directory containing only a single test.par, all invocations below are equivalent:
% perl -MPAR::Dist -e"install_par( dist => 'test.par' )"
% perl -MPAR::Dist -e"install_par( 'test.par' )"
% perl -MPAR::Dist -einstall_par;
If $dist resembles a URL, "LWP::Simple::mirror" is called to mirror it locally under $ENV{PAR_TEMP} (or "$TEMP/par/" if unspecified), and the function will act on the fetched local file instead. If the URL begins with "cpan://AUTHOR/", it will be expanded automatically to the author's CPAN directory (e.g. "http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/A/AU/AUTHOR/").
If $dist does not have a file extension beginning with a letter or underscore, a dash and $suffix ($ARCH-$PERL_VERSION.par by default) will be appended to it.
Takes key/value pairs as parameters or a single parameter indicating the path that contains the blib/ subdirectory.
Builds a PAR distribution from the blib/ subdirectory under "path", or under the current directory if unspecified. If blib/ does not exist, it automatically runs Build, make, Build.PL or Makefile.PL to create it.
Returns the filename of the generated PAR distribution.
Valid parameters are:
The suffix is generated from your architecture name and your version of perl by default.
Installs a PAR distribution into the system, using "ExtUtils::Install::install_default".
If only a single parameter is given, it is treated as the value for the "dist" parameter.
Valid named parameters are:
Default verbosity for PAR::Dist is 1.
If you're just going to install into the running perl like everything else, you can stop reading the rest of this section now.
Additionally, you can use several parameters to change the default installation destinations. You don't usually have to worry about this unless you are installing into a user-local directory. The following section outlines the parameter names and default settings:
Parameter From To
inst_lib blib/lib $Config{installsitelib} (*)
inst_archlib blib/arch $Config{installsitearch}
inst_script blib/script $Config{installscript}
inst_bin blib/bin $Config{installbin}
inst_man1dir blib/man1 $Config{installman1dir}
inst_man3dir blib/man3 $Config{installman3dir}
packlist_read $Config{sitearchexp}/auto/$name/.packlist
packlist_write $Config{installsitearch}/auto/$name/.packlist
The "packlist_write" parameter is used to control where the .packlist file is written to. (Necessary for uninstallation.) The "packlist_read" parameter specifies a .packlist file to merge in if it exists. By setting any of the above installation targets to "undef", you can remove that target altogether. For example, passing "inst_man1dir => undef, inst_man3dir => undef" means that the contained manual pages won't be installed. This is not available for the packlists.
Again, the defaults will be the normal site paths from %Config.
(*) If the ".par"'s inst_archlib section (normally "blib/arch") isn't empty, the code in inst_lib (normally "blib/lib") is also installed into the inst_archlib path. This makes sense for XS modules. If, however, you override "inst_lib", this automatic conversion is also overridden! You can use the named parameter "auto_inst_lib_conversion => 1" to re-enable the conversion for custom inst_lib's.
Finally, you may specify a "custom_targets" parameter. Its value should be a reference to a hash of custom installation targets such as
custom_targets => { 'blib/my_data' => '/some/path/my_data' }
You can use this to install the .par archives contents to arbitrary locations.
Uninstalls all previously installed contents of a PAR distribution, using "ExtUtils::Install::uninstall".
Takes almost the same parameters as "install_par", but naturally, the installation target parameters do not apply. The only exception to this is the "packlist_read" parameter which specifies the .packlist file to read the list of installed files from. It defaults to "$Config::Config{installsitearch}/auto/$name/.packlist".
Additionally, the "uninstall_shadows" parameter of "install_par" isn't available.
Digitally sign a PAR distribution using "gpg" or Crypt::OpenPGP, via Module::Signature.
Verify the digital signature of a PAR distribution using "gpg" or Crypt::OpenPGP, via Module::Signature.
Returns a boolean value indicating whether verification passed; $! is set to the return code of "Module::Signature::verify".
Note: Since version 0.32 of PAR::Dist, this function requires a YAML reader. The order of precedence is:
YAML:XS YAML YAML::Syck YAML::Tiny
Merges two or more PAR distributions into one. First argument must be the name of the distribution you want to merge all others into. Any following arguments will be interpreted as the file names of further PAR distributions to merge into the first one.
merge_par('foo.par', 'bar.par', 'baz.par')
This will merge the distributions "foo.par", "bar.par" and "baz.par" into the distribution "foo.par". "foo.par" will be overwritten!
The original META.yml of "foo.par" is retained, but augmented with any "provides", "requires", "recommends", "build_requires", and "configure_requires" sections from the other ".par" files.
Remove the man pages from a PAR distribution. Takes one named parameter: dist which should be the name (and path) of the PAR distribution file. The calling conventions outlined in the "FUNCTIONS" section above apply.
The PAR archive will be extracted, stripped of all "man\d?" and "html" subdirectories and then repackaged into the original file.
Opens a PAR archive and extracts the contained META.yml file. Returns the META.yml file as a string.
Takes one named parameter: dist. If only one parameter is passed, it is treated as the dist parameter. (Have a look at the description in the "FUNCTIONS" section above.)
Returns undef if no PAR archive or no META.yml within the archive were found.
First argument must be a distribution file name. The file name is parsed into distribution name, distribution version, architecture name, and perl version.
Returns the results as a list in the above order. If any or all of the above cannot be determined, returns undef instead of the undetermined elements.
Supported formats are:
Math-Symbolic-0.502-x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi-5.8.7
Math-Symbolic-0.502
The ".tar.gz" or ".par" extensions as well as any preceding paths are stripped before parsing. Starting with "PAR::Dist" 0.22, versions containing a preceding "v" are parsed correctly.
This function is not exported by default.
Creates a blib/lib subdirectory in the current directory and prepares a META.yml with meta information for a new PAR distribution. First argument should be the name of the PAR distribution in a format understood by "parse_dist_name()". Alternatively, named arguments resembling those of "blib_to_par" are accepted.
After running "generate_blib_stub" and injecting files into the blib directory, you can create a PAR distribution using "blib_to_par". This function is useful for creating custom PAR distributions from scratch. (I.e. not from an unpacked CPAN distribution) Example:
use PAR::Dist;
use File::Copy 'copy';
generate_blib_stub(
name => 'MyApp', version => '1.00'
);
copy('MyApp.pm', 'blib/lib/MyApp.pm');
blib_to_par(); # generates the .par file!
"generate_blib_stub" will not overwrite existing files.
This function is not exported by default.
Opens a PAR archive tries to determine whether that archive contains platform-specific binary code.
Takes one named parameter: dist. If only one parameter is passed, it is treated as the dist parameter. (Have a look at the description in the "FUNCTIONS" section above.)
Throws a fatal error if the PAR archive could not be found.
Returns one if the PAR was found to contain binary code and zero otherwise.
PAR, ExtUtils::Install, Module::Signature, LWP::Simple
Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org> 2003-2007
Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> 2005-2011
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Please send bug reports to <bug-par@rt.cpan.org>.
Copyright 2003-2011 by Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
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