On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 04:08 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Petr Pisar wrote: > > per Build Root Without Perl Fedora 25 change > > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl>, I'm > > ready to implement the most visible part of this change. > > That change completely fails to account for the unknown (probably very high) > number of packages that run Perl scripts at any point of their build > process. All the steps you documented to detect affected packages catch only > packages that actually have Perl-related output (because you scan the > RUNTIME dependencies for Perl module or libperl dependencies), which are > only the tip of the iceberg. I expect this change to break a huge number of > packages' build in very strange, hard to debug ways. It is likely that some > will even silently build with some important functionality removed, because > Perl was not available to build some generated file or test for some system > properties.
I know that at one point it was standing advice for Mandrake packages to use perl for doing sed-style substitutions in specs (i.e. perl -pi -e 's,foo,bar,' ) because you could rely on perl being in the build root. So yeah, it seems like it would be a good idea to check for that kind of thing... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
