-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Austin Acton wrote on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0500 : > > First, it wants to install a file called perllocal.pod in > %perl_sitearch. It just contains info about the package, but the name > seems wrong. In SuSe, they seem to pipe .pod files to /var/adm, but > it's all greek to me. Can I just delete the file?
Dunno the answer to that one. > Also, rpm seems to add requires:perl-base >= 5.800 to the package. > Since we're using perl 5.8.0, it won't install. I grepped the source, > and there is no reference to '5.800' in the code. Where is rpm getting > this? Not from the spec file. Bryan Whitehead answered this a couple days ago: This is a bug in rpm (rpm-build to be exact). find.requires is the problem, located in /usr/lib/rpm. look at line 165. When you build you "own" perl based rpm it read the site config version as 5.8.00 but then writes the requires as 5.800 which breaks perl builds... Pain in the ass I've been dealing with for my perl modules I build at JPL. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-5mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Usb6lp7v05cW2woRAqt0AJsGvHBBjygb2UiVwMrbiTeyfQaUYQCeM1yt Wh6SzTdeqlGVXrLzITk79dw= =ckXn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
