Description of problem: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-requires contain at two places following grep pattern: ":.* (commands|script) " The problem is that file is identifying Perl scrips as follows: test.pl: Perl script, ASCII text executable Therefore /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires from rpm rather uses ":.* (commands|script)[, ]" Beside this problem there is also the same problem as described in bug 1275551. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-rpm-config-9.1.0-68.el7.noarch How reproducible: alwyas Steps to Reproduce: # cat > test.pl <<EOF #!/usr/bin/perl use AAA; use BBB; # use CCC is a comment and should not be part of requires sub get_help { return <<EOT; This text is a help an if it contains something like use DDD , it should not be part of requires or like use EEE , it should not be part of requires EOT } EOF # chmod a+x test.pl # echo test.pl | /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-requires objdump: test.pl: File format not recognized Expected results: /usr/bin/perl perl(AAA) perl(BBB) See also bug 1275551.
The file find-requires is not used for generating autodeps any more, it is replaced with internal implementation inside rpm. Yes, there is macro %_use_internal_dependency_generator which when it set to "0" then the file find-requires is used for dependency generation but it is set to "1" by default and it is highly recommended not to set it to "1". The macro exists only to enable preserving backward compatibility if it is necessary. There is no sense in fixing that regex. If we want to do something we can replace content of /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires with calling of /usr/lib/rpmdeps tool as it is already done in fedora. The tool rpmdes uses the same code which is used in rpmbuild internally for generating autodeps. So we won't have two implementations of the same thing.
s/it is highly recommended not to set it to "1"/it is highly recommended not to set it to "0"/
I meant replace the content of /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires and probably remove /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-requires completely.
Fixed the ":.* (commands|script) " part. The wrong perl Requires from #1275551 is caused by calling the broken script from the rpm package and needs to be fixed there.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2372.html