Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-18 Thread Peter Willis
While we're talking about the retarded Red Hat perl rpm, is anyone aware that perl 5.8 as shipped with RHEL has an unpatched bug which can cause an exponential slowdown when using overloading? (This might have been adressed here already, and if so please ignore me :-X) This blog post contains

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-18 Thread Peter Willis
Well how about that! Released yesterday... Well nevermind my patch then. (We could have used that 3 weeks ago when our biggest perl product launched, but it's good that they're finally getting to the fix) Niels de Vos wrote: Hi Ralph, you probably meant:

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dominik Gehl
Of course. I have a tool to generate the SPEC file so you don't have to spend the time creating one. I just need a list of the perl CPAN distribution to generate and build one. How about DBIx::Class ? I see that the directory exists (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-DBIx-Class/ ) but

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: Of course. I have a tool to generate the SPEC file so you don't have to spend the time creating one. I just need a list of the perl CPAN distribution to generate and build one. How about DBIx::Class ? I see that the directory exists

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dominik Gehl
Hi, attached is a SPEC file for the latest version of DBIx::Class. Dominik perl-DBIx-Class.spec Description: Binary data On 17-Sep-08, at 12:15 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: Of course. I have a tool to generate the SPEC file so you don't have to spend

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: attached is a SPEC file for the latest version of DBIx::Class. The problem was not the SPEC file, the problem is that it requires perl(Test::Builder) = 0.33. Did you try to build it ? Because I am interested what satisfied this dependency for you.

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dominik Gehl
On 17-Sep-08, at 3:06 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: attached is a SPEC file for the latest version of DBIx::Class. The problem was not the SPEC file, the problem is that it requires perl(Test::Builder) = 0.33. In fact, I found also an issue in the SPEC

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dominik Gehl
Because I am interested what satisfied this dependency for you. It normally is satisfied by perl-Test-Builder-Tester, but that one has problems of its own. If you have CPAN on your system, then it is important to realise we cannot build against CPAN modules. All modules need to come from

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: Because I am interested what satisfied this dependency for you. It normally is satisfied by perl-Test-Builder-Tester, but that one has problems of its own. If you have CPAN on your system, then it is important to realise we cannot build against

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dominik Gehl
Hi, according to 'perl -V', we have @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: On 17-Sep-08, at 3:55 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dominik Gehl wrote: Because I am interested what satisfied this dependency for you. It normally is satisfied by perl-Test-Builder-Tester, but that one has problems of its

Re: [suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-17 Thread Dave Cross
Dag Wieers wrote: That is why I think we need to somehow make Red Hat understand that they should not add CPAN distributions to the perl package. It's not Red Hat that does this. The standard Perl distribution contains modules that are also distributed independently from CPAN. They are known

[suggest] package for Net::MAC perl module

2008-09-16 Thread Dominik Gehl
Hi, I've created a SPEC file (attached to this message) for the Net::MAC perl module (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-MAC/). Could you include this module in the repository ? Thanks, Dominik perl-Net-MAC.spec Description: Binary data ___