Bug 141182
| Summary: | Perl SRPM breaks installed perl | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Aaron Sherman <ajs> |
| Component: | perl | Assignee: | Chip Turner <cturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ajs, jose.p.oliveira.oss, scop |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-04-27 06:42:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Relocations are unsupported and discouraged in our distribution. And you shouldn't be building packages as root. In any case this may be a good idea to add. ping Ville or jpo Skimmed "Configure" and "installperl", and -Dinstallusrbinperl=n makes sense to me, assuming it will not affect the build otherwise (untested). (In reply to comment #1) > Relocations are unsupported and discouraged in our distribution. And you > shouldn't be building packages as root. In any case this may be a good idea to > add. Sorry I didn't get back to this earlier. I understand, but there's no good reason that "rpmbuild -ba x.spec" should ever write to /usr/bin... that's simply wrong. If you did NOT build this as root, then the build would fail, and that's probably not what you wanted either ;-) As for relocations... I understand not supporting the end-result, and there are problems further down the line, which I would not submit bugs for for exactly this reason. It's simply not your problem at that point. However, if you're going to provide a %{_prefix} variable, its use should probably not break the existing system.... Ville, thanks for looking at this, and verifying that the change makes sense. Built into perl-5.8.6-8 |
Description of problem: The SRPM, perl-5.8.5-9.src.rpm, runs the Configure script with the -Dinstallusrbinperl option. This is either redundant or dangerous depending on how the SRPM is used. For example, if someone changes %{_prefix} in order to relocate the Perl install, this will cause the building of the SRPM to remove /usr/bin/perl and replace it with a symlink into the build root tree! The corect value would be -Dinstallusrbinperl=n Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.8.5-9 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. na 2. na 3. na Actual results: broken perl Expected results: rpm build Additional info: