On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:17 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:05 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > >> ------- Additional Comments From rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-03-01 14:38 EST ------- > > >> Balint, > > >> > > >> Yes, this is related to our splitting out perl-devel in -14 - 'yum install > > >> perl-devel' should fix the problem. See bug #226276 > > > > > > AFAIS, this change seems to break building of any perl-module. > > > > > > => All perl modules' spec files from now on would require to change all > > > perl-modules to "BuildRequire: perl-devel" - > > > Are you seriously wanting this? > > > > > > As this thing doesn't seem to be baked yet[1], and as I don't want to > > > see FE-6 and FE-5 being locked out from updates, for now, I will ignore > > > this issue on rawhide, i.e. you will likely see broken EVRs between > > > rawhide and older FE, on my perl-modules, soon. > > > > The same issue will affect the grepmail update I'm just about to do as > > well. I'm not adding the perl=devel buildreq just yet until a firm > > decision on whether all modules have to BR: perl=devel is made. > > > > > [1] Why is such a massive change being introduced such kind of late in a > > > release cycle? IMO, it's way to late, and should be postponed to F8 once > > > things have been sorted out. > > > > It's clearly come about as a result of the perl spec cleanup during the > > merge review, but I think splitting out perl-devel at this point is a > > bit late given the number of packages that will need changing (unless as > > Ralf suggests, the hack of adding perl-devel to the FC7 buildroot is made). > > I don't see any fault in adding perl-devel to the FC7 buildroot, with > the caveat that it will not be there in FC8+. Thoughts? Works for me (literally, in my own buildsystem... as well as figuratively). Paul.
