Bug 183099

Summary:	Provides: perl(main)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ralf Corsepius <rc040203>
Component:	Sprog	Assignee:	Gavin Henry <ghenry>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	extras-qa, perl-devel
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	0.14-11.fc5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-02-20 11:11:16 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	187071

Description Ralf Corsepius 2006-02-26 07:54:42 UTC

Description of problem:
The Sprog package "Provides: perl(main)".

This is a packaging bug. It shouldn't do so.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.14-7

Expected results:
Not providing perl(main).

Additional info:
You need to filter perl(main) from this package's provides.

Check the perl-HTML-Tree package's spec for one way to achieve this.

Comment 1 Gavin Henry 2006-02-26 09:31:17 UTC

Shouldn't that be handled by the requires perl script?

It should know that this is not the perl RPM.

If it doesn't it should be patched.

Gavin.

Comment 2 Ralf Corsepius 2006-02-26 11:14:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Shouldn't that be handled by the requires perl script?
Yes, this is a bug in rpm ...
 
> It should know that this is not the perl RPM. 
> If it doesn't it should be patched.
Agreed, but this doesn't help us NOW. Your package provides bogus provides, so
you can't avoid working around this issue.

Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2006-02-26 12:03:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Shouldn't that be handled by the requires perl script?
> Yes, this is a bug in rpm ...

...which is fixed in rpm >= 4.4.2-12.  A simple rebuild with such a version will
fix it, and in fact Sprog-0.14-7.fc5 no longer provides perl(main).

$ rpm -q Sprog
Sprog-0.14-7.fc5
$ rpm -q --provides Sprog | grep main
$

> Agreed, but this doesn't help us NOW.

It does for devel.

> Your package provides bogus provides, so
> you can't avoid working around this issue.

This workaround is needed in <= FC4 only.

Comment 4 Ralf Corsepius 2006-02-26 12:08:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > Shouldn't that be handled by the requires perl script?
> > Yes, this is a bug in rpm ...

> > Your package provides bogus provides, so
> > you can't avoid working around this issue.
> 
> This workaround is needed in <= FC4 only.

... or somebody will have to fix rpm for <= FC4, too.

Comment 5 Gavin Henry 2006-02-26 14:44:49 UTC

I'll do the workaround for FC-4 then ;-)

I'll read perl-HTML-Tree, like Ralf suggested.

Thanks,

Gavin.

Comment 6 Gavin Henry 2006-02-26 15:02:15 UTC

I can't find the perl-HTML-Tree SRPM in either the FC-4 tree or Developement?

Any pointers?

Gavin.

Comment 7 Ville Skyttä 2006-02-26 15:09:21 UTC

It's in Extras.

Comment 8 Gavin Henry 2006-02-26 15:44:47 UTC

Doh!

Comment 9 Gavin Henry 2006-02-26 23:09:40 UTC

Done and built.

Comment 10 Ralf Corsepius 2007-02-20 11:11:16 UTC

The PR seems obsolete since a long time, closing ...