Redundant/conflicting Perl Provides? (smbldap_tools)

[Steven Pritchard]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:10:36PM +0100, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> ...
> > samba provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
> > smbldap-tools provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
> >  required by: smbldap-tools - 0.9.2-5.fc7.noarch
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > Comments anyone?
> > 
> 
> samba shouldn't provide perl(smbldap_tools) as it ships
> smbldap as docs.
> 
> Solutions:
> 1) filter the provides list in samba
>   /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.25b/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.2/smbldap_tools.pm
> 2) create a samba-smbldap-tools subpackage

More like 2) stop shipping redundant bits in the samba package.

Steve
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