FC4 perl module upgrades/cleanups

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Mar 31 16:57:36 UTC 2005


Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:

>>>> 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.

> No correctness. Disabling the internal dependency generator is not at 

... There is no dispute that this is bad, in general.

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

> Override %__perl_requires and filter as before.

In what rpm version was __perl_requires introduced?  I've tried to use 
it from time-to-time, and it doesn't seem to work with older versions of 
rpm (or perhaps I didn't try hard enough).

-- Rex




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