[Fedora-packaging] Perl Question

[Conner Finlay]

Paul,

Wouldn't BuildRequires: be pretty much the same thing as doing a manual yum
install of the package, then building the spec file?

Thanks,
Conner

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> Conner Finlay wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have searched Google high and low, but I have not found an answer. I
>> have a spec file that requires some perl modules, ie Net::IP, XML::Simple,
>> etc. For all but one there is an RPM available for it. In the SPEC file I
>> have them as Requires: perl(Net::IP) and the spec file builds fine(rpmbuild
>> -ba -v) but when I go to install the RPM it complains about the missing perl
>> modules. If I do a `yum install perl-xyz` and rebuild the SPEC file, it will
>> not complain about the missing perl modules. How can I have the SPEC file
>> download/install the perl modules/packages? If it is easier, I can also post
>> the SPEC file itself.
>>
>
> If you use yum to install the rpm you've built, it will resolve the
> dependencies and install them too.
>
> When you specify "Requires: foo", this means that your package needs "foo"
> on the system to run, but not necessarily to build, so rpm enforces this
> when you try to install the package. If you want "foo" available at build
> time (perhaps to run a test suite), you specify that as "BuildRequires:
> foo", and rpm-build will insist you have "foo" when you try to build the
> package.
>
> Paul.
>
>
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