Spilt libperl from perl
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Mon Apr 23 20:50:53 UTC 2007
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:54:01 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Recently, gaim went away and pidgin showed up in Extras. All of a sudden,
> nothing brought in perl to be multilib. I mistakenly assumed that perl had
> never been multilib and things were just noticing. We had big discussions
> around perl/gaim and multilib around FC6 release time and I forgot the
> outcome, and I simply was an idiot and didn't look at the FC6 tree, which
> clearly shows perl was multilib.
>
> To resolve this, I have added perl to a "whitelist" to force it to be multilib
> again, since pidgin isn't in core to pull it in. This will resolve all these
> broken deps for Fedora 7, without making further drastic changes to the perl
> package.
>
> Perl should once again be multilib with tonight's rawhide.
Hmmm ... recently you've said it (Perl multi-lib) doesn't work at all.
> This problem wouldn't have come up had we already been merged, since pidgin
> would be available during the compose, depsolved, and brought in the perl
> multilib.
Pidgin introduces a full new set of packages, which replace/obsolete the
old gaim packages. Isn't that enough to upgrade from an old fc6 multi-lib
gaim to the fc7 64-bit pidgin?
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