Bug 205455

Summary:	RFE: Versioned Obsoletes for built-in perl modules
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nick Leverton <nick>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	8	CC:	jpazdziora, perl-devel, tcallawa
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Description Nick Leverton 2006-09-06 14:05:39 UTC

Description of problem:  
  
The perl rpm Obsoletes a number of modules which are now included in base perl  
5.8.8.  However some of these modules do get updated fairly regularly in 
between perl releases. 
 
As a system  
builder I prefer to update them by building an RPM with cpanflute for the 
specific module e.g. perl-Time-HiRes, so that I get simple and repeatable 
installations. But because of the Obsoletes in the perl RPM I have to remember 
which are in base perl and choose non-standard module names to get round it. 
  
If the Obsoletes tag could be made versioned, against the actual module  
version included in perl, it would simplify the task of keeping systems up to  
date between Fedora releases.  It would also make it it much easier when 
Fedora perl is updated because $PACKAGE_MANAGER could be trusted not to remove 
newer modules. 
  
At the time of writing the tags for perl 5.8.8 would be:  
  
Obsoletes: perl-Digest-MD5 <= 2.36  
Obsoletes: perl-MIME-Base64 <= 3.07  
Obsoletes: perl-libnet <= 1.19  
Obsoletes: perl-Storable <= 2.15  
Obsoletes: perl-CGI <= 3.15  
Obsoletes: perl-CPAN <= 1.7602  
Obsoletes: perl-DB_File <= 1.814  
Obsoletes: perl-Filter <= 1.32  
Obsoletes: perl-Filter-Simple <= 0.82  
Obsoletes: perl-Time-HiRes <= 1.86  
Obsoletes: perl-Test-Builder-Tester <= 1.02  
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  
  
5.8.8-8

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora 2008-03-04 08:23:25 UTC

This seems like a reasonable suggestion.

Do we have some plan to do this for F9 / 5.10?

Or is there some other plan to deal with modules included in the perl package?

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-03-04 11:46:53 UTC

Some of the mentioned packages already are obsoleted in F-8 perl. I can add
other to F-8 spec file. 

What for F-9 perl-5.10? Any thoughts?

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-03-07 22:04:11 UTC

I'm not sure about this. If we add these Obsoletes, we'd want to also add the
versioned Provides. The base perl package already provides versioned provides
for everything inside of it (in perl(Foo::Bar) format), so we'd be adding a
rather large set of duplicate Provides to the spec file.

The only Obsolete entry in the rawhide perl spec is:

Obsoletes: perl-File-Temp < 0.18

There are no other hardcoded Obsoletes, so you should not be hitting the problem
you're describing. :)

Comment 4 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-03-10 10:06:25 UTC

I see, so we can close it.