Ownership of %{perl_vendorlib}/auto

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 7 11:21:56 UTC 2006


Marius Feraru wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> No, but .. are you sure the perl-Mail*'s auto aren't bugs?
>>> At least I am not.
>> I'm not sure. Where *should* autosplit-ted bits of noarch packages go?
> 
> $ man AutoLoader
> ...
> DESCRIPTION
> ...
> AutoLoader implements an AUTOLOAD subroutine. When an undefined
> subroutine in is called in a client module of AutoLoader, AutoLoader's
> AUTOLOAD subroutine attempts to locate the subroutine in a file with a
> name related to the location of the file from which the client module
> was read.
> As an example, if POSIX.pm is located in
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for perl subroutines
> POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al, where the ".al"
> file has the same name as the subroutine, sans package.

So it would appear that perl-MailTools does this correctly:

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Internet.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Util.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/_prephdr.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/add_signature.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/autosplit.ix
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/escape_from.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/nntppost.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/reply.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/send.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/sign.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/smtpsend.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/unescape_from.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/autosplit.ix
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/mailaddress.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/maildomain.al
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/read_mbox.al

Robin, is it OK for me to reopen #73970 and then mark #213561 as a 
duplicate of that since I don't think I can reassign an Extras bug to a 
Core component i.e. perl.

Paul.




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