Bug 456534
| Summary: | perl back to requiring perl-devel by default | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Component: | perl | Assignee: | Stepan Kasal <kasal> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | kasal, rc040203, robin.norwood, tcallawa |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-08-08 13:48:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 438944 | ||
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Description
Jeremy Katz
2008-07-24 14:08:25 UTC
You are suggesting that perl-devel crept in as a requirement of
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker. We cannot see anything like that.
The default package list contains a meta-package named "perl-core," which is
proud to deliver "all of the perl bits and modules in the upstream tarball."
Indeed, the perl-core requires enlists them all: perl-devel, perl-ExtUtils-*,
perl-Test-*, perl-CPAN, and perl-Module-Build.
It seems perl-core is part of the default instalation.
What is the right solution here?
Perhaps perl-core might be split into two parts:
One would be named "perl-core-devel" or "perl-apple," would get the original
description ("all of the perl...", see above) and would require perl-core and
the development packages mentioned above.
The other one would be named "perl-core," and would maintain the rest of the
current huge requires list.
The base install would contain perl-core, but not perl-core-devel.
What do you think?
With today's rawhide, that is not the case. perl-core is not listed in comps and the dep tree pulling perl-devel is from [katzj@aglarond comps]$ rpm -qpR ~/trees/rawhide/i386/Packages/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.36-38.fc10.i386.rpm |grep devel perl-devel [katzj@aglarond comps]$ rpm -qpR ~/trees/rawhide/i386/Packages/perl-5.10.0-38.fc10.i386.rpm |grep MakeMaker perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) [katzj@aglarond comps]$ grep perl-core comps-f10.xml.in [katzj@aglarond comps]$ With F9 gold booted straight off the livecd [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qR perl |grep MakeMaker [root@localhost ~]# (Oh, I examined obsolete rpms, sorry.) You are right. That unfortunate dependency appeared first in perl-5.10.0-37.fc10. Thank you for your report and for your patience explaining it to me. ;-) After a quick examination, I cannot see anything in the diff which would warrant the change, so I'm afraid it's caused by a change in the build environment. (That is to be confirmed by a scratch build.) Stay tuned. The problem was caused by enc2xs templates .../Encode/*.e2x, which, unlike the enc2x script itself, were packed in the main perl package. Fixed in perl-5.10.0-39.fc10. |