[Fedora-packaging] Help please? How do I express a dependency on a Perl module not installed in a standard place within an RPM spec file?

[Paul Howarth]

On 27/10/09 16:16, richard.hellier at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Situation I have is this:
>
> (a) I have a bunch of perl scripts that use a perl module (say Foo) that
> is not installed on the “package build machine”
>
> (b) On the target machine, the FOO module was “hand installed” in
> antiquity in /opt/foo
>
> In the perl scripts, I have:
>
> Use lib qw{/opt/foo/lib};
>
> Use Foo::Bar;
>
> SO – I can build the package fine but when I try to install it, I get
> the messages:
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>
> perl(Foo::Bar) is needed by some-package-1.1.1-1.noarch
>
> Any ideas, please, how I can “teach” the spec file that the required
> perl module lives in a certain place on the target machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Richard.

Why don't you just create a perl-Foo package to properly package the module?

If there's some really really good reason why you can't do that, you can 
fix the requires:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl#Filtering_Requires:_and_Provides

On recent Fedoras you can also use this scheme:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering

Paul.