Bug 452097

Summary: Subpackage ntp to split out perl scripts
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Lalancette <clalance>
Component: ntpAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Patch to subpackage ntp auxiliary perl scripts none

Description Chris Lalancette 2008-06-19 11:43:20 UTC 
Description of problem:
The oVirt project (http://ovirt.org) uses Fedora as the basis for building a
very small distribution (< 64MB compressed).  As part of that process, we
currently break the NTP perl dependency by just "rpm -e --nodeps perl". 
However, we prefer not to break rpm dependencies wherever possible.  Since NTP
only seems to use perl for two small auxiliary scripts, I propose subpackaging
those two scripts (with the associated man pages) into an ntp-perl package. 
That way we can use the main ntp package without perl for our small
distribution, and Fedora can continue to have the auxiliary scripts in the
subpackage.

I'm attaching a spec file patch (against what is currently in ntp/devel) that
does this; please consider for Fedora 10.
Comment 1 Chris Lalancette 2008-06-19 11:43:20 UTC 
Created attachment 309844 [details]
Patch to subpackage ntp auxiliary perl scripts
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-06-19 12:09:08 UTC 
Good idea, will be in the next release. Thanks.
Comment 3 Chris Lalancette 2008-06-21 12:36:52 UTC 
Great, thanks for the quick response.

Chris Lalancette
Comment 4 Alan Pevec 2008-06-23 09:44:59 UTC 
Just one thing, you don't need:
+%exclude %{_sbindir}/ntp-wait
+%exclude %{_sbindir}/ntptrace
+%exclude %{_mandir}/man8/ntptrace.8*

since there's an explicit list w/o wildcards in %files sections for each
sub-package.
Comment 5 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-07-28 11:11:35 UTC 
Fixed in ntp-4.2.4p4-7.fc10.