FC4 perl module upgrades/cleanups
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Mar 31 15:41:50 UTC 2005
Once upon a time, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at nc.rr.com> said:
> Adding
>
> %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
>
> is very much the wrong thing to do with any package that includes
> elf32/elf64 modules.
>
> And there is loss of functionality if/when
> %_use_internal_dependency_generator is used
> for any package, as dependencies are not attached to files.
>
> The mechanism was intended to to assist bootstrapping multilib, not for
> serious packaging usage.
So how do you override bogus auto-generated dependencies? For perl
modules, it is not practical to have to patch out bits of code that
won't be called on a particular platform just to avoid invalid
dependencies.
I suggested a "NoRequires:" for RPM a while back but got shot down.
AFAIK the only way to do it today is to use the above %define and filter
things out.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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