On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:22 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: > 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, I am not sure about this, because ... > 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? > .. this issue renders using BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) (The "correct" BuildRequires for MakeMaker based perl-modules) non-functional and (bogusly) forces packagers to resort to using BuildRequires: perl-devel or BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) perl-devel instead. Background: I have another patch to the perl package pending, which physically separates ExtUtils::MakeMaker, CPAN, Test::Simple and Test::Harness from "perl-devel". It resolves the issue of some packages (e.g. mod_perl) to directly depend on perl-devel at run-time. Ralf
