From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: here is the changelog entry from my modified spec: - added build conditionals: threading, largefiles, test, compat, suid - cleaned up some "perlver" macro usage - switched to using the "bz2" source - made Source to point to the URL on CPAN - updated Requirements - tweaked Configure flags: disabled some useless items etc - switched to using "test-notty" for make-test phase :: heavy lift-ups in %install stage: - more useless files are dropped - eliminated files duplication (replacing them with symlinks) - fixed POSIX installation - added more comments :)) - more complete h2ph headers building (using a separate source file with filenames) - marked POD files as documentation - marked libnet as configuration (more to come in a future sync of my perl packages with Fedora's) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.8.5-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: rpm -ql perl
Created attachment 107498 [details] spec diff
Created attachment 107499 [details] perl-PH (extra source including "header" files to be h2ph-ed)
Created attachment 107530 [details] spec diff a new spec, including more fixes/tweaks. the updated changelog entry is: - added build conditionals: threading, largefiles, test, compat, suid - cleaned up some "perlver" macro usage - switched to the "bz2" source - made Source to point to a URL (on CPAN) - updated Requirements - tweaked Configure flags: disabled some useless items etc - switched to using "test-notty" for make-test phase - heavy lift-ups in %%install stage... - more useless files are dropped - eliminated files duplication (replacing them with symlinks) - fixed POSIX installation - added more comments in the spec :)) - more complete h2ph headers building - marked POD files as documentation - marked libnet as configuration - enforcing "..arch../auto" dirs creation/ownership
Created attachment 107554 [details] spec diff (to perl-5.8.5-10) - perl version 5.8.6 - dropped external __perl_requires file (integrated it into the spec) - dropped MANIFEST.suidperl and system-owned-directories (integrated in spec) - dropped clean-manifest.pl (no longer necessary) - more cruft cleaned up
Perl team, please check if any of this is still relevant.
Closing due to lack of response from original submitter, and things in the perl package have changed substantially since then.