That does help a bit, thanks. Does yum and friends try and go get the required perl modules or does it just stall and tell you that they are not installed?
On 5/16/07, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike: > > I can only speak for RPM packaging as I do not have any experience > with deb package creation. > > For both Python and Perl, you can reference dependencies via the > package name, i.e. if your RPM requires perl-Tk, then you just put > that in your requires, like: > > Requires: perl-Tk > > For Perl, there is an alternative way to specify this dependency, as follows: > > Requires: perl(XML::Simple) > > This requires the specific Perl module, which is not specific to the > package name, so this dependency will work on distributions who choose > to have difference names for the specific Perl module package (eg. > Fedora vs SuSE). > > This naming convention currently does not exist for Python. > > Hope this helps! > > Bernard > > On 5/11/07, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity, from a packaging point of view (either rpm, deb, etc > > or OSCAR) how would one deal with dependencies which are part of a > > different packaging system, like perl or python modules? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Oscar-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
