Description of problem: Please build latest perl-Math-BigInt-GMP for EPEL 4 and 5. As the %check section doesn't work on EPEL 4 and 5, I'm suggesting the following block to use instead: %if 0%{?fedora}%{?rhel} > 5 %check make test %endif And the %{fixperm} thing maybe doesn't exist on EPEL 4 as well, there could be chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/* get necessary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-1 Additional info: Please let me know, if you just don't want to be the maintainer for the perl-Math-BigInt-GMP EPEL packages...
Math::BigInt::GMP requires Math::BigInt >= 1.87, which is not available in either EL-4 or EL-5. Since it's also a core module bundled with the main perl package, there's not much chance of that changing either. I suspect that's why the test suite fails too. %{_fixperms} works all the way back to Red Hat Linux 7 and maybe further (I don't have anything older to hand at the moment).
Even it requires Math::BigInt >= 1.87 for some of the functionalities, it works for most of them with older Math::BigInt and gets down the 10 seconds from Net::SSH::Perl when using without Math::BigInt::GMP to ~ 1.5 seconds. So there's definately an improvement and a reason to have that package at EPEL. Regarding %{_fixperms}, that's possible, I didn't investigate into this.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Steven, ping? Any feedback by you?
Steven, ping again? Are you alive?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Steven, ping once more? Please show up, otherwise I'm considering you as AWOL.
perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-5.el4 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 4. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-5.el4
perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-5.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-5.el5
Built and submitted as an update to EPEL-4 and EPEL-5. Sorry that it took me so long to notice this.
perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-5.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
perl-Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24-5.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.