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Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:58:08PM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
>> Nevertheless, the logic still applies to Perl, because every package (even
>> those that only contain
>> pure Perl code) has a .packlist file under
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/
>> (this one for x86_64)
>>
>> Hence, and only because of that, Perl packages are all arch-specific (=
>> never noarch).
>> The .packlist is not critical though, and that's why some perl packages may
>> work even if it's not
>> the correct package architecture, if they only contain pure Perl code.
>
> Hmm, good point. IMHO the .packlist should not be in installarchlib
> if the package contains only "noarch" data, i.e. nothing else
> is in installarchlib.
Indeed. It's pretty pointless to make arch-bound packages that only contain
pure Perl code but
that's where Perl is putting/expecting the .packlist file as of now.
$ rpm -qa 'perl-*' --queryformat '%{ARCH}\n' | wc -l
0
$ zgrep -E '/perl-.*\.noarch\.rpm$' | wc -l
0
$ zgrep -E '/perl-.*\.x86_64\.rpm$' | wc -l
455
;)
cheers
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