[Fedora-packaging] perl module MODULE_COMPAT

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:02:19 +0200 (CEST), Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:07:55 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > 
> > > Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo 
> > > $version))
> > > 
> > > As long as we're going through all FC4 perl modules, we might as well 
> > > add this to all packages too.  Just confirming, is this wanted in *ALL* 
> > > packages that need perl, both regular arch and noarch?
> > 
> > Certainly for all Perl module packages which install files into versioned
> > Perl vendor lib locations (or site lib, although that should not be done).
> > That's the only way to ensure that the main "perl" actually supports loading
> > from those versioned directories.
> 
> One important point, you are (or have been) effectively dropping support 
> for every distro prior to FC1.

No. That's what the perl-forward-compat package has been for:

http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/8.0/i386/RPMS.stable/perl-forward-compat-5.8.0-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm