Robin Norwood <rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 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. > > Yeah, maybe we need to tweak the dependencies here. I'll poke around > and see if I can figure it out, and maybe ask the Yum guys for advice. It looks like you unearthed a bug in yum. Reproduced and filed a bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231549 I don't think this should be a blocker for the perl/perl-devel split, since: o It's a yum bug. o perl-devel is still installable with 'yum install perl-devel' o In many cases (if the user has something installed that depends on something that only perl-devel will provide), the user will get perl-devel anyway. What do you think? -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
