Filtering lib provides in XS packages?

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:02:01 -0800
Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > I do think that filtering these provides is the right thing to do
> > but I'm not sure about the approach. Whilst it should be fine for a
> > regular perl module package, it could cause problems for
> > mixed-language packages where there are other valid provides that
> > should be included but are not found by the perl provides script.
> > An alternative approach for such cases would be, e.g.
> >
> > # don't provide the private XS.so lib
> > %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> > %global provfind /bin/sh -c "%__find_provides | grep -v '^XS[.]so'"
> > %global __find_provides %provfind
> >
> 
> Yeah.  I was using as a simple case the filtering needed in
> perl-Readonly-XS...  Others will be different, e.g. perl-Imager
> requires a bunch filtered:
> 
> perl-Imager ==> CountColor.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> DynTest.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> Flines.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> ICO.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> Imager.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> Mandelbrot.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> SGI.so()(64bit)
> 
> The following snippet just filters any .so files under
> %perl_vendorarch from being run through %__find_provides:
> 
> # don't "provide" private Perl libs
> %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> %global provfind /bin/sh -c "grep -v '%perl_vendorarch.*\\.so$' |
> %__find_provides"
> %global __find_provides %provfind
> 
> Looking at just the packages installed on my system, I see 208
> '*perl*' packages providing shared libs; for 432 .so's.
> 
> http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/impacted_packages
> http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/private_libs

I like the look of that one, seems suitable as an addition to the
arch-specific perl package template perhaps?

Paul.