What to do about perl-RPM2...

2008-09-22 Thread Robin Norwood
this weekend to look at it, but I'm not really willing to be upstream for RPM2 long term. Should we drop it from F10? I don't know how widely used it is. -- Robin Norwood The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org

rpms/perl-RPM2/EL-5 perl-RPM2.spec,1.1,1.2

2008-08-26 Thread Robin Norwood
: 1%{?dist} +Release: 7%{?dist} Summary: Perl bindings for the RPM Package Manager API License: GPL or Artistic Group: Development/Libraries @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ %{_mandir}/man3/RPM2.3pm* %changelog +* Mon Aug 25 2008 Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0.67-7 +- Build

rpms/perl-XML-XPath/EL-4 perl-XML-XPath.spec,1.1,1.2

2008-02-21 Thread Robin Norwood
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ %changelog +* Tue Feb 19 2008 Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 1.13-3 +- Bring in fixes from fedora spec file +- Build for EPEL-4 + * Sun Jul 11 2004 Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi - 0:1.13-2 - Bring up to date with current fedora.us Perl spec template. -- Fedora Extras

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-10 Thread Robin Norwood
Chris Weyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 6, 2007 8:35 AM, Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the perlmodcompat stuff, if I may ask? This is the business that creates the directories: /usr/lib/perl5/{5.8.6,5.8.7,5.8.8} So

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-10 Thread Robin Norwood
Marius Feraru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [My apologies for my digression, feel free to ignore it.] Robin Norwood wrote: /usr/lib/perl5/{5.8.6,5.8.7,5.8.8} So that rpms built for older releases will still work. It's kindof nasty, but as I understand it, it was to prevent having to rebuilt

[Rafael Garcia-Suarez] Ready for release?

2007-12-10 Thread Robin Norwood
already :) notably Sascha Blank and Andreas König for the Attribute stuff, and Schwern Craig for MakeMaker. The Plan would be to release 5.10.0 on the 18th december. Why the 18th? Read perlhist. ---End Message--- -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-07 Thread Robin Norwood
Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Weyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Along these lines... Do we have a plan for including 5.10 in F-9/devel? With the RC out, it sounds like 5.10 will GA not-too-horribly-soon from now, and we're at a point

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-07 Thread Robin Norwood
Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Weyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Along these lines... Do we have a plan for including 5.10 in F-9/devel? With the RC out, it sounds like 5.10 will GA not-too-horribly-soon from now, and we're at a point in devel where it's probably the Right

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-06 Thread Robin Norwood
of such a central module. %package CPAN Version:1.76_02 Oh, duh. I didn't realize that the version was hardcoded in the spec file. I'll fix that today. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-06 Thread Robin Norwood
Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:32 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: o Speaking of the perlmodcompat stuff - is 5.10.0 a good time to get rid of it? Or we be kicking ourselves when 5.10.x is released and we need to rebuild everything? I think we should

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-12-05 Thread Robin Norwood
://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Chris Weyl Ex astris, scientia -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-11-26 Thread Robin Norwood
-Test-Pod-Coverage -- Check for pod coverage in your distribution * perl-Text-CSV_XS -- Comma-separated values manipulation routines I can take these. Is there a good way to mass-convert these modules, or do we just do individual requests? -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc

Re: time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

2007-11-26 Thread Robin Norwood
Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 16:04 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: * perl-Compress-Bzip2 -- Interface to Bzip2 compression library * perl-DBD-CSV -- DBI driver for CSV files * perl-DBD-SQLite -- Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver

License tag for perl modules

2007-08-10 Thread Robin Norwood
the license field as you go (Not blindly, of course...there are probably exceptions). -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list

Anyone use perl-Net-DNS?

2007-06-28 Thread Robin Norwood
, of course. There are some security fixes included, which is why I'm even bothering to roll an FC5 update this late in its lifecycle. http://search.cpan.org/src/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.60/Changes Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te

Re: Archive::Zip - 'unauthorized' release.

2007-06-05 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:21 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: Hi, [...] Release 1.20 ;) Adam just (Today, 2007-06-05) seems to have officially released 1.20 see: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Archive-Zip-1.20/ Ask, and ye shall receive. I'll build

Archive::Zip - 'unauthorized' release.

2007-06-04 Thread Robin Norwood
/ -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Archive::Zip - 'unauthorized' release.

2007-06-04 Thread Robin Norwood
Jason L Tibbitts III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RN == Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RN Is there a general policy for this sort of situation, and if not, RN should there be? I'm not sure we could make one. When upstream forks (or pseudo-forks as seems to have happened here), we're

Proposed patch to perl for f8 - remove Requires on perl-devel

2007-06-01 Thread Robin Norwood
This package contains header files and development modules. @@ -721,6 +719,9 @@ %{_mandir}/man3/Test::Tutorial* %changelog +* Fri Jun 1 2007 Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 4:5.8.8-19 +- Remove artificial Requires from perl-devel + * Wed May 16 2007 Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 4:5.8.8-18

Re: Thoughts...

2007-05-19 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 14:33 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: Chris Weyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if it makes sense to include all the core modules as BR's - It does, because this is the only way to guarantee long term stability. IMO

Re: More on perl for F7

2007-05-17 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:32 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: Hi, We've been discussing the perl split and how to minimize disruption for users. Warren, spot, and I are seeing about getting the 'core' perl packages that have been split into separate RPMs

More on perl for F7

2007-05-16 Thread Robin Norwood
: perl-devel perl-CPAN perl-ExtUtils-Embed perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-Test-Harness perl-Test-Simple -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl

Re: Perl splitting

2007-05-15 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:19 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Such issues could easily be approached by a perl-SWAT team, but ... I find it remarkable that none of you commented on this. Are you

Re: Perl splitting

2007-05-15 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:48 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: Well, what does collaborative maintainership mean to you, exactly? A team of equal (senior-, overseer-) maintainers simultaneously working collaboratively on something. Not a subordinate coding

Re: Perl splitting

2007-05-14 Thread Robin Norwood
it remarkable that none of you commented on this. Are you volunteering to start one? I'll be happy to help as much as I can, time permitting. :-) -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http

Re: Perl splitting

2007-05-10 Thread Robin Norwood
::MakeMaker) and (less frequent) BuildRequires: perl(Test::More). 2. Such issues could easily be approached by a perl-SWAT team, but ... 3. It's a grandfathering approach. There is no need to rebuild everything. ^ What he said. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet

Re: Breaking perl...

2007-04-17 Thread Robin Norwood
Chris Weyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/16/07, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:01 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote: On 4/16/07, Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that seems to be the consensus. We'll roll the split into F7, add the needed packages

Re: Breaking perl...

2007-04-16 Thread Robin Norwood
. I'll get an email together to fedora devel list explaining the changes and asking for feedback. We should also update the perl packaging guidelines wiki page(s). Spot, I think you own those - do you want to make the change (perl packages should now BR perl-devel + co), or shall I? -RN -- Robin

Re: New perl spec file

2007-04-03 Thread Robin Norwood
' is likely to fail. Would it be wise to add a: Provides: cpan To that package? Thanks, -RN Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] It doesn't work. The epochs on dependencies on perl inside of sub-packages are wrong. E.g.: # rpm -q

Re: New perl spec file

2007-03-31 Thread Robin Norwood
. Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

New perl spec file

2007-03-30 Thread Robin Norwood
/lib/perl5/%{perl_version}/Test/Simple* /usr/lib/perl5/%{perl_version}/Test/Tutorial* %{_mandir}/man3/Test::More* %{_mandir}/man3/Test::Builder* %{_mandir}/man3/Test::Simple* %{_mandir}/man3/Test::Tutorial* %changelog * Wed Mar 28 2007 Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 4:5.8.8-16 - Includes patch from

Re: New perl spec file

2007-03-30 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:33 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: Hi, Sorry for the delay, but here's a new perl spec file including Ralf and Tom's changes, removing the Requires: perl-devel, and a couple of minor cleanups from me. It seems to build

Re: Final decision on perl-devel?

2007-03-08 Thread Robin Norwood
Robin Norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:20 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: [...] I noticed a further problems: On FC6 with a locally build perl*-14.1 (including my most recent patches) in a local repo in addition to the FC's

Re: Should perl-devel Obsolete perl?

2007-03-06 Thread Robin Norwood
does 'obsolete' older versions of perl, but rpm can't really express that. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing

Re: [Bug 230608] missing config.h in latest -14

2007-03-06 Thread Robin Norwood
annoying - I wish there were a 'better way'. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list

Re: [Bug 230608] missing config.h in latest -14

2007-03-05 Thread Robin Norwood
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Re: [Bug 230608] missing config.h in latest -14

2007-03-05 Thread Robin Norwood
Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:08 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: [...] If we retroactively add a 'Provides: perl-devel' to versions of perl in older distributions, will that help? It will solve the *.spec portability issue, but ... the core question still

Mea Culpa

2007-03-05 Thread Robin Norwood
the change, make a decision, and get this thing done one way or another. We'll end with a better, stronger, faster perl when we're done. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http

Re: [Bug 230608] missing config.h in latest -14

2007-03-05 Thread Robin Norwood
be. I can see putting MakeMaker and CPAN into perl-devel, but perlbug really seems to me to belong in the main perl package. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: [Bug 230608] missing config.h in latest -14

2007-03-05 Thread Robin Norwood
short order, we will look at just rolling perl-devel back into perl and adding a Provides: perl-devel. We'll consider the fact that perl isn't split out into perl-devel as a bug to be fixed in Fedora 8. Thanks for your patience. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet

Re: Rawhide perl modules (2006-12-01)

2006-12-05 Thread Robin Norwood
-RPM-Specfile is more appropriate for Extras. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list

Re: Ownership of %{perl_vendorlib}/auto

2006-11-07 Thread Robin Norwood
in it, and takes a few minutes for someone to read through and understand what's going on. But I'll still fix it if you just reopen #73970. :-) Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http

Re: Ownership of %{perl_vendorlib}/auto

2006-11-02 Thread Robin Norwood
objections? If not, Paul, feel free to re-assign the bug to me and the perl package. Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl

Re: A couple of requests for FC-6

2006-09-18 Thread Robin Norwood
for a %post script. OTOH, I'd rather not break everyone's perl modules. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora

Re: Updating perl modules inside the base perl package

2006-09-13 Thread Robin Norwood
/bar) o Put a 'use lib /foo/bar' at the top of all the scripts Since use lib prepends to @INC, that 'should work'. Anyone have a better, or at least 'less bad', idea? -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras

New perl and perl-* package maintainer

2006-08-04 Thread Robin Norwood
. While I get up to speed, is there anything that you guys think needs attention sooner rather than later? Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone. -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs