FC4 perl module upgrades/cleanups

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Mar 31 16:44:55 UTC 2005


Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Adding
>>>     %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
>>> is very much the wrong thing to do with any package that includes 
>>> elf32/elf64 modules.
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> The mechanism was intended to to assist bootstrapping multilib, not 
>>> for serious packaging usage.
>>
>>
>>
>> So what do you suggest doing when the internal dep generator yields 
>> incorrect/bogus results?
> 
> 
> 
> The internal dep generator is *NOT* yielding incorrect/bogus 
> dependencies, the per-perl script
> is yielding incorrect/bogus dependencies because regexes are mis-firing.
> 
> You are confused.

Semantics.  Whatever.

My point being that incorrect deps/reqs *are* being generated from time 
to time.  How to fix/workaround that?

-- Rex




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