Bug 585947

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Printing and desktop are separate subpackages, which (due to an error) are in the 'Optional' repository at the moment.

Thanks Bill. I have enabled the 'Optional' repository and was able to install -printing and -desktop. A couple of issues:

redhat-lsb should require the subpackages. At this point there is no seperation of requirements for a server or desktop LSB implementation.

Neither of these packages have any requirements of their own, and installing them with yum did not add the missing pieces needed for LSB >= 3.2.

(In reply to comment #4)
> redhat-lsb should require the subpackages. At this point there is no seperation
> of requirements for a server or desktop LSB implementation.

That defeats the point of splitting it if installing the LSB support pulls everything in.

> Neither of these packages have any requirements of their own, and installing
> them with yum did not add the missing pieces needed for LSB >= 3.2.    

That just sounds like a bug.

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As of REHL6-beta2, this situation is still pretty much the same. I'm not finding anything that requires the language modules (perl, python), and in fact by updating to Beta2, perl-CGI seems to have just "gone away" (required by LSB 4.0+). As a result, there are 14 failures in the perl tests.

perl::CGI is provided by the main perl package, AFAIK.

Yes, it is part of the upstream perl tarball, which is why it's included as a required component for LSB.

But...distributions have gotten creative in packaging perl and split it up in various ways. I don't find a reference in the changelog to actually removing it, but I'm not finding perl::CGI or perl, perl-core or any repos that my yum (possibly limited) has access to in the RHEL6-beta2. I know some distributions package it seperately or substitute in the CPAN version, but in this case I just can't find it at all.


[stew@rhel6-32 ~]$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.10.1-113.el6.i686
[stew@rhel6-32 ~]$ rpm -V perl
[stew@rhel6-32 ~]$ rpm -q perl-core
perl-core-5.10.1-113.el6.i686
[stew@rhel6-32 ~]$ rpm -V perl-core

Running one of the failing tests:
[root@rhel6-32 perl]# ./single_test ../lib/CGI/t/apache.t
../lib/CGI/t/apache....1..1
not ok 1 - use CGI::Apache;

#   Failed test 'use CGI::Apache;'
#   at ../lib/CGI/t/apache.t line 13.
#     Tried to use 'CGI::Apache'.
#     Error:  Can't locate CGI/Apache.pm in @INC (@INC contains: blib/lib blib/arch t/lib /opt/lsb/test/perl/5.10.0/tlib /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . './' /opt/lsb/test/perl/lib) at (eval 4) line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 2.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
dubious
	Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 1
	Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
Failed Test           Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
../lib/CGI/t/apache.t    1   256     1    1  1
Failed 1/1 test scripts. 1/1 subtests failed.
Files=1, Tests=1,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.09 cusr +  0.26 csys =  0.35 CPU)
Failed 1/1 test programs. 1/1 subtests failed.


[root@rhel6-32 ~]# yum search CGI | grep perl
perl-CGI-Session.noarch : Persistent session data in CGI applications
mod_perl.i686 : An embedded Perl interpreter for the Apache HTTP Server
perl.i686 : Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-Frontier-RPC.noarch : A Perl interface for making and serving XML-RPC calls
perl-Image-Size.noarch : Determine the size of images in several common formats

I'm looking at a more current tree, and I see perl-CGI, still as a separate package. (It's part of the main perl package in later Fedora releases.)

Looks like this was fixed post-beta2.

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