Description of problem: The oVirt project (http://ovirt.org) uses Fedora as the basis for building a very small distribution (< 64MB compressed). As part of that process, we currently break the NTP perl dependency by just "rpm -e --nodeps perl". However, we prefer not to break rpm dependencies wherever possible. Since NTP only seems to use perl for two small auxiliary scripts, I propose subpackaging those two scripts (with the associated man pages) into an ntp-perl package. That way we can use the main ntp package without perl for our small distribution, and Fedora can continue to have the auxiliary scripts in the subpackage. I'm attaching a spec file patch (against what is currently in ntp/devel) that does this; please consider for Fedora 10.
Created attachment 309844 [details] Patch to subpackage ntp auxiliary perl scripts
Good idea, will be in the next release. Thanks.
Great, thanks for the quick response. Chris Lalancette
Just one thing, you don't need: +%exclude %{_sbindir}/ntp-wait +%exclude %{_sbindir}/ntptrace +%exclude %{_mandir}/man8/ntptrace.8* since there's an explicit list w/o wildcards in %files sections for each sub-package.
Fixed in ntp-4.2.4p4-7.fc10.