Bug 2133212

Summary:	perl-Hash-Merge-Simple can not be installed on Rocky Linux 8
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	lordy+rhbz
Component:	perl-Hash-Merge-Simple	Assignee:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel8	CC:	iarnell, paul, perl-devel
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Description lordy+rhbz 2022-10-08 20:34:13 UTC

Description of problem:

Package can not be installed on Rocky Linux 8.6 due to dependency error.

[root@testbox ~]# cat /etc/rocky-release
Rocky Linux release 8.6 (Green Obsidian)
[root@testbox ~]# LC_ALL=C yum install perl-Hash-Merge-Simple
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:31 ago on Sat Oct  8 20:29:12 2022.
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides perl(Clone) needed by perl-Hash-Merge-Simple-0.051-15.el8.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

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

0.051-15.el8

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Rocky Linux 8.6
2. Enable EPEL repository (yum install epel-release)
3. Try to install perl-Hash-Merge-Simple (yum install perl-Hash-Merge-Simple)

Actual results:

Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides perl(Clone) needed by perl-Hash-Merge-Simple-0.051-15.el8.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

Expected results:

Package should be installed cleanly.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2022-10-09 09:10:42 UTC

The perl(Clone) module is in the Rocky 8 PowerTools repository, which should be enabled in order to use packages (particularly perl modules) from EPEL.

See the "CentOS" instructions here (unfortunately not updated for Alma and Rocky):
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#how_can_i_use_these_extra_packages

There has been some discussion on enabling this repository automatically since this is such a common issue but it's not that straightforward:
https://pagure.io/epel/issue/128

Anyway, enable that repository and you'll be able to install perl-Hash-Merge-Simple from EPEL.