Bug 128546

Summary: missing links to 5.8.4 libraries for backward compatibility
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo <carenas>
Component: perlAssignee: Chip Turner <cturner>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Fixed In Version: 5.8.5-9 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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patch to perl.spec to add missing backward compatibility links for perl 5.8.4 none

Description Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2004-07-25 04:52:34 UTC 
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Description of problem:
SPEC for perl 5.8.5 is missing compatibility links for 5.8.4 on the
post script and the build parameters.

this breaks the update of this package from a 5.8.4 based package
which is providing libperl.so, like vim-enhanced-6.3.014-1 (BUG 128535
and BUG 128524) and which are expecting libperl.so to be on the
corresponding architecture/version directory (ex:
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.4/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so)

as the dependency is decided as compile time and is specific to the
architecture/version used on the build machine, a different scheme
which uses a generic dependency name (Require: perl) and changes to
use a path agnostic libperl.so was suggested (might be tricky on multi
arch platforms though).

eventhough, as a workaround for backward compatibility is already
deployed on the current SPEC, a patch which fixes this using the
current approach is attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.5-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Fedora Core3 test 1 (AMD64, eventhough it is not arch specific)
2. update -u perl
3. 
    

Actual Results:  /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.4/x86_64-linux-thread-multi is
needed by
(installed) vim-enhanced-6.3.014-1



Expected Results:  package updated

Additional info:
Comment 1 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2004-07-25 04:57:05 UTC 
Created attachment 102199 [details]
patch to perl.spec to add missing backward compatibility links for perl 5.8.4

adds 5.8.4 to the defined list on -Dinc_version_list and a link to the 5.8.4 on
the %install script
Comment 2 Chip Turner 2004-10-12 10:45:14 UTC 
this should be fixed in 5.8.5-7
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2004-10-14 14:52:16 UTC 
Looks good to me.