Bug 487972

Summary:	RFE:filter Perl private libs for arch-specific packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Weyl <cweyl>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Fedora Packaging Toolset Team <packaging-team>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ffesti, pknirsch, pmatilai
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Description Chris Weyl 2009-03-01 21:57:20 UTC

Perl arch specific packages often contain shared libraries that are private to Perl, and ought not to be publicized as "provides" for a package.

Over in Perl-packaging-land we've taken to using the following to filter the private libs from ever being scanned by the rpm "provides" generator.  Would it be possible to change the auto-prov script to simply filter any so's out from under:

%perl_archlib
%perl_sitearch
%perl_vendorarch

One possible way would perhaps be to allow a variable to be defined in the spec that could specify a given directory to skip a certain type of autoprov scanning...  This could also be used by other package types filtering out private plugins or libraries. e.g.

# for perl
RPM_NOAUTPROV_SHLIB="%perl_vendorarch:..."

--- XXXX 26 Feb 2009 12:39:28 -0000 1.9
+++ XXXX 28 Feb 2009 22:57:42 -0000
@@ -17,2 +17,7 @@

+# don't "provide" private Perl libs
+%global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
+%global provfind /bin/sh -c "grep -v '%perl_vendorarch.*\\.so$' | %__find_provides"
+%global __find_provides %provfind
+
 %description


Thanks :)

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2011-10-18 07:40:01 UTC

It's solved in macros.perl by %global __provides_exclude_from %{perl_vendorarch}/auto/.*\\\\.so$|%{perl_archlib}/.*\\\\.so

I suppose this one can be closed now if you do not have better solution inside rpm.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-13 23:08:30 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-13 23:11:47 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2013-09-09 13:11:24 UTC

This should be fixed in rawhide (and f20 also) since this:

* Fri May 17 2013 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> - - 4.11.0.1-5
- filter out non-library soname dependencies