perl modules in Mandriva 2007

Here's a bit of code pulled out of a newsgroup years ago that has served
faithfully ever since to list the installed Perl Modules:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use ExtUtils::Installed;
my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???";
print "$module -- $version\n";

}

The thing is, on Mandriva 2007 all it ever says is

Perl -- 5.8.8

When I use urpmi to install modules, for instance:

urpmi perl-MD5

they aren't listed, even the md5.pm ends up in
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8

Can somebody please explain?

Thanks,

David Mathog

David Mathog <mathog@caltech.edu> writes:
[color=blue]
> Here's a bit of code pulled out of a newsgroup years ago that has served
> faithfully ever since to list the installed Perl Modules:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl[/color]

Is /usr/local/bin where you have perl installed?
[color=blue]
> use ExtUtils::Installed;
> my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
> foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
> my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???";
> print "$module -- $version\n";
>
> }
>
> The thing is, on Mandriva 2007 all it ever says is
>
> Perl -- 5.8.8
>
> When I use urpmi to install modules, for instance:
>
> urpmi perl-MD5
>
> they aren't listed, even the md5.pm ends up in
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
>
> Can somebody please explain?[/color]

I get the same result on FC4.

On my older Mandriva system I only see 2 packages listed
and I think I installed them directly from CPAN.

I can see from the man page that the only place this
looks are the .packlist files.
I don't think RPM installs are updating the packlist.

Do a locate .packlist then see what's in the file(s).

Dan Espen wrote:[color=blue]
> David Mathog <mathog@caltech.edu> writes:
>[color=green]
>> Here's a bit of code pulled out of a newsgroup years ago that has served
>> faithfully ever since to list the installed Perl Modules:
>>
>> #!/usr/local/bin/perl[/color]
>
> Is /usr/local/bin where you have perl installed?[/color]

No, it's /usr/bin/perl. There is a link though from /usr/local/bin/perl
to /usr/bin/perl.
[color=blue]
> I get the same result on FC4.
>
> On my older Mandriva system I only see 2 packages listed
> and I think I installed them directly from CPAN.[/color]

Right, I just installed a couple of packages from cpan and
those show up. Just not the ones that go in from urpmi.

[color=blue]
>
> I can see from the man page that the only place this
> looks are the .packlist files.
> I don't think RPM installs are updating the packlist.[/color]

Sounds reasonable - broken if urpmi is to be of any use -
but reasonable.