Bug 923997 - perl-Sub-Exporter package missing
Summary: perl-Sub-Exporter package missing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl-Sub-Exporter
Version: el6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: rob
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-20 21:36 UTC by James H
Modified: 2013-03-21 19:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-03-21 19:30:57 UTC
Type: Bug
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Shell session showing attempted installation of package that depends on perl-Sub-Exporter (2.93 KB, text/plain)
2013-03-20 21:36 UTC, James H
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Description James H 2013-03-20 21:36:46 UTC
Created attachment 713481 [details]
Shell session showing attempted installation of package that depends on perl-Sub-Exporter

Description of problem:
A number of Perl packages in EPEL depend on the Sub::Exporter module, but no package containing that module is available from EPEL or from standard RHEL repos.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-Sub-Exporter

How reproducible:
Easily reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to install perl-Sub-Exporter-Progressive (or any module that depends on Sub::Exporter, such as perl-Const-Fast) via Yum
2. An error message indicates a dependency on perl(Sub::Exporter) which cannot be satisfied
  
Actual results:
The desired package is not installed

Expected results:
The package and its required dependencies are installed

Additional info:

I have attached a copy-paste of a shell session showing the exact error message from Yum, along with an appropriate whatprovides search showing that no other package contains the module in question. I had initially filed a bug against perl-Const-Fast, which is what I was originally trying to install that depends on perl-Sub-Exporter; that bug report was number 922222. The (former) maintainer of that package closed that report and suggested I file against this component instead and you can read his update in the other report for more details. Thanks.

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2013-03-20 21:52:15 UTC
I think you need to enable the RHEL-6 "Optional" channel, which is a requirement for EPEL-6 as many of its dependencies come from there (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).

The perl-Sub-Exporter-Progressive package could not actually have been built if perl-Sub-Exporter was not available, as it's required for the test suite.

Comment 2 James H 2013-03-21 19:30:57 UTC
Right there on the front page, too :-\ Sorry about that, and thanks for the pointer.


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