Bug 2390079

Summary: git-core subpackage now depends on perl
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dusty Mabe <dustymabe>
Component: gitAssignee: Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: awilliam, besser82, johannes, jonathan, miabbott, mizdebsk, opohorel, pstodulk, yaneti
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URL: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/2011
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Description Dusty Mabe 2025-08-21 12:19:28 UTC 
As of git-2.51.0-1.fc44 and git-2.51.0-1.fc43 the git-core subpackage now depends on perl. I believe this was a mistake.

CoreOS builds are failing with:

```
06:01:37  Resolving dependencies...done
06:01:37  error: Installing packages: Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:
06:01:37   Problem: package git-core-2.51.0-1.fc44.x86_64 from fedora-rawhide requires /usr/bin/perl, but none of the providers can be installed
06:01:37    - conflicting requests
06:01:37    - package perl-interpreter-4:5.42.0-520.fc43.x86_64 from fedora-rawhide is filtered out by exclude filtering
06:01:37  failed to execute cmd-fetch: exit status 1
```



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Yanko Kaneti 2025-08-21 13:10:43 UTC 
find templates -type f -name "*sample" | xargs chmod -x

is enough to strip the perl dep.
Personally I would have anything *.sample in docs and not the core package
Comment 2 Adam Williamson (Red Hat non-Fedora) 2025-08-21 15:45:11 UTC 
Hah, hi Dusty, you win this round. :P

openQA actually caught this, but I couldn't figure out what was going on and decided it was a blip - all I knew is that it pulled in the older git from the rawhide repo instead of the newer one from the advisory repo, it doesn't tell you *why* it does that and I couldn't work it out yesterday. Now we know!

Indeed, all openQA Silverblue ostree build tests now fail on this, and all Atomic desktop builds in today's compose failed too - https://pagure.io/releng/failed-composes/issue/8538 .
Comment 3 Adam Williamson (Red Hat non-Fedora) 2025-08-21 16:05:40 UTC 
Adding this to the spec fixes it:

# Don't generate deps from the sample hooks (to avoid perl deps in core)
%global __requires_exclude_from ^%{_datadir}/git-core/templates/hooks/.*sample$

that tells RPM to skip any files matching that regex when auto-generating requirements. See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering/ .

Even if we do decide to move all the sample hooks to another package, I think it's a good idea to *also* add that line, as it doesn't seem right for *whichever* package they wind up in to have any deps which are *only* required to run sample hooks.
Comment 4 Adam Williamson (Red Hat non-Fedora) 2025-08-21 18:38:25 UTC 
Fixed now, F43 and F44 updates are both stable. The bug never made it to F41 or F42.