Description of problem: if one install amavisd-new in Fedora 20 x86_64 results in the following listing dependencies to install: ========================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ========================================================================================== Installing: amavisd-new noarch 2.8.0-8.fc20 updates 771 k Installing for dependencies: altermime x86_64 0.3.10-9.fc20 fedora 57 k freeze x86_64 2.5.0-16.fc20 fedora 31 k gdbm-devel x86_64 1.10-7.fc20 fedora 47 k glibc-devel x86_64 2.18-11.fc20 fedora 1.0 M glibc-headers x86_64 2.18-11.fc20 fedora 647 k kernel-headers x86_64 3.12.8-300.fc20 updates 914 k libdb-devel x86_64 5.3.28-1.fc20 fedora 37 k lrzip x86_64 0.614-4.fc20 fedora 188 k nomarch x86_64 1.4-11.fc20 fedora 21 k perl-DB_File x86_64 1.831-1.fc20 updates 74 k perl-ExtUtils-Install noarch 1.59-289.fc20 updates 74 k perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker noarch 6.72-2.fc20 fedora 277 k perl-ExtUtils-Manifest noarch 1.63-1.fc20 fedora 31 k perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS noarch 1:3.18-292.fc20 updates 77 k perl-devel x86_64 4:5.18.2-289.fc20 updates 473 k portreserve x86_64 0.0.5-9.fc20 updates 25 k procmail x86_64 3.22-33.fc20 fedora 174 k spamassassin x86_64 3.3.2-18.fc20 updates 1.1 M systemtap-sdt-devel x86_64 2.4-1.fc20 fedora 57 k Transaction Summary ========================================================================================== Install 1 Package (+19 Dependent packages) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): spamassassin-3.3.2-19.fc20 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install amavisd-new Actual results: install many devel packages from a non-devel rpm Expected results: ========================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ========================================================================================== Installing: amavisd-new noarch 2.8.0-8.fc20 updates 771 k Installing for dependencies: altermime x86_64 0.3.10-9.fc20 fedora 57 k freeze x86_64 2.5.0-16.fc20 fedora 31 k lrzip x86_64 0.614-4.fc20 fedora 188 k nomarch x86_64 1.4-11.fc20 fedora 21 k perl-DB_File x86_64 1.831-1.fc20 updates 74 k portreserve x86_64 0.0.5-9.fc20 updates 25 k procmail x86_64 3.22-33.fc20 fedora 174 k spamassassin x86_64 3.3.2-18.fc20 updates 1.1 M Transaction Summary ========================================================================================== Install 1 Package (+8 Dependent packages) Additional info: the following patch seems to fix the bug removing the Requires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) from spamassasin rpm so the yum install only carries 9 packages instead of 20 --- SPECS/spamassassin.spec.orig 2014-01-05 09:08:30.000000000 -0600 +++ SPECS/spamassassin.spec 2014-01-22 13:00:00.713880585 -0600 @@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ Obsoletes: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin +%{?perl_default_filter} +%global __requires_exclude %{?__requires_exclude}|perl\\(ExtUtils::MakeMaker\\) + %description SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate Unsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM) from your incoming email. It can
Please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432176 If we filter that out, several tools break.
sorry I didn't look in old bugs until now, thanks Fedora 19 has the following: amavisd-new noarch 2.8.0-8.fc19 updates altermime x86_64 0.3.10-8.fc19 fedora freeze x86_64 2.5.0-15.fc19 fedora lrzip x86_64 0.614-3.fc19 fedora nomarch x86_64 1.4-10.fc19 fedora perl-ExtUtils-Install noarch 1.58-266.fc19 updates perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker noarch 6.64-3.fc19 updates perl-ExtUtils-Manifest noarch 1.63-1.fc19 updates perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS noarch 1:3.16-266.fc19 updates perl-devel x86_64 4:5.16.3-266.fc19 updates portreserve x86_64 0.0.5-7.fc19 fedora procmail x86_64 3.22-32.fc19 fedora spamassassin x86_64 3.3.2-15.fc19 fedora systemtap-sdt-devel x86_64 2.4-1.fc19 updates so I was happy having perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker & related packages in F19 but in F20 because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905482 I have glibc-devel, glibc-headers and the others rpms added so I tried to not install the new dependencies introduced by the fix of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905482 because MY usecase (others hundreds or thousands of users have their own usecases) is a personal (email/file server|computer) without rpm devel packages now reading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432176 I gather which sa-compile requires re2c, but that isn't installed running yum install amavisd-new and the manpage from sa-update mentions requiring too the C compiler used to build Perl XS modules so seems in MY usecase sa-compile was broken since the F19 or earlier or I hasn't used sa-compile. also by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432176 I understand the reasons to not splitting or remove the dependency, thanks for telling me about it IF in the future you the packagers review the decision of split spamassasin can consider also splitting only the libs used by amavisd-new in their own rpm package? no procmail, no daemons. thanks
We could revisit the split, sure. I'd like to hear from my co-maintainers on the idea. I agree that many people just want to use spamassassin with their MUA, so they don't want a lot of deps pulled in. Not sure how feasable it is to split things however.
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