On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:20 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: > Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Has the final decision on whether perl-devel will split from perl > > during F7 been made? > > > > I hope that a final decision can be made and announced widely, because > > currently this issue is causing confusion and doubt among maintainers. > > I think we are going with perl/perl-devel split. Spot, Rafael, and > others are working on getting things into a state where we can build > another release. There don't seem to be any showstoppers at this > point. I'll make an announcement when we know more. 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 core+extras, yum install 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)' fails: # rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)' no package provides perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) # yum install 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)' ... Nothing to do # repoquery --whatprovides 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)' perl-4:5.8.8-10.i386 perl-devel-4:5.8.8-14.1.i386 # yum install perl-devel ... Installed: perl-devel.i386 4:5.8.8-14.1 Seems to me as if yum can't properly handle this split. May-be, it can't handle resolving a property (perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)) being provided by different packages perl rsp. perl-devel. Ralf
