Bug 111227 - ntp requires perl, but only on Red Hat Linux
Summary: ntp requires perl, but only on Red Hat Linux
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ntp
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-30 23:17 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-29 13:39:05 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-11-30 23:17:09 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)

Description of problem:
Hello Guys !

ntp requires perl to be installed. 
This is only a requirement on Red Hat Linux and I am not aware of this requirement on other Linux distributions.
Your Red Hat Es 3.0 base is large already, can we get an ntp rpm where the ntp-wait perl script is removed or alternatively rewritten in say bash ?

It seems a waste to install Perl and its dependencies, not to mention all the future updates that it can bring with itself.

Thank you:
Frank Kruchio

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
released version

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qR ntp
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Actual Results:  Perl is a requirement

Expected Results:  Perl is not a requirement

Additional info:

The ES 3.0 base contains is about 257 rpm packages.
Do we really need that many ?

Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2003-12-02 20:02:03 UTC
Internal RFE bug #111381 has been entered - will be considered for
future releases.


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