Bug 109934

Summary: perl.req produces extra requirements for "=<<" blocks
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chen Xiangyang <chenxy>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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A patch to perl.req none

Description Chen Xiangyang 2003-11-13 04:27:06 UTC 
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Description of problem:
A bug in /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req causes rpm to generate extra
requirements for perl scripts:  if a perl script contains variable
definitions like this:

$INFO =<<"_INFO";
You can
use this script to test the bug in perl.req
_INFO


And if the block contains a line beginning with "use "(ignoring
leading spaces and tabulars), perl.req will generate requirement like

perl(this)

The bug should exist in older versions of rpm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.write a perl script that contains a block described in the
'description', save it as 'test.pl'
2.run 'echo test.pl | /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req

Actual Results:  the result contains a line like:

perl(this)

Expected Results:  no such lines

Additional info:

You can test it using the source rpm MySQL-4.0.16-0.src.rpm from
www.mysql.com, rpmbuild will generate requirements like

perl(this)
perl(the)

for the MySQL-client and MySQL-bench rpms.
Comment 1 Chen Xiangyang 2003-11-13 04:30:36 UTC 
Created attachment 95938 [details]
A patch to perl.req
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2003-12-28 15:13:15 UTC 
Added to CVS, should be in rpm-4.2.2-0.8 and later.

Note that perl.req is being phased out, replace with
perldeps.pl {--provides|--requires}
Comment 3 John Flanagan 2004-05-12 04:27:23 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-098.html