Bug 1410347
| Summary: | Provide perl(:VERSION) by perl-libs and perl-interpreter by perl | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Petr Pisar <ppisar> |
| Component: | perl | Assignee: | perl-maint-list |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Kyral <mkyral> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | bnater, djez, jorton, lmiksik, mkyral, mpetlan, perl-maint-list, sergio |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | EasyFix, FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| URL: | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | perl-5.16.3-293.el7 | Doc Type: | No Doc Update |
| Doc Text: |
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2018-10-30 10:54:53 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1571850, 1572546 | ||
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A new Perl packaging guidiles for Fedora will mandate using "perl-interpreter" instead of "perl" dependency for installing perl executable <https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/690>. People sharing packages between Fedora and EPEL desire to have perl-interpreter in RHEL. Adding this new Provide makes packaging for EPEL easier. The requested change is adding: +Provides: perl-interpreter = %{perl_epoch}:%{perl_version}-%{release} into perl sub-package. +1 please add "Provides: perl-interpreter = %{perl_epoch}:%{perl_version}-%{release}" to perl package ASAP
Seems that ocaml source rpm cannot be rebuilt because it build-requires perl-interpreter package. I think we have everything necessary in perl package, so we don't actually need perl-interpreter as a separate package on RHEL. Also, with --nodeps it proceeds. Could this bug be fixed in RHEL-7.5, since we ship ocaml there and simple `rpmbuild --rebuild ocaml*src.rpm` fails? Looks like an easyfix. Thank you. Please contact Red Hat support to escalate your issue correctly. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:3183 |
A new Perl packaging guidelines for Fedora offer `perl(:VERSION)' RPM dependency symbol for matching minimal Perl version. This is because perl's NEVRA is unusable for this purpose. People sharing source packages between Fedora and EPEL desire to have perl(:VERSION) in RHEL. Adding this new Provide makes packaging for EPEL easier. It's a simple matter of adding: +Provides: perl(:VERSION) = %{perl_version} into perl-libs sub-package.