Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: perl & mod_perl-devel : buggy dependency ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243832 paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|perl |mod_perl ------- Additional Comments From paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx 2007-06-12 09:22 EST ------- (In reply to comment #2) > Cannot reproduce here with FC7 (x86_64ú: > > [matej@hubmaier ~]$ rpm -qa mod_per\* > [matej@hubmaier ~]$ rpm -q perl > perl-5.8.8-18.fc7 > [matej@hubmaier ~]$ > > and > > [matej@hubmaier ~]$ sudo yum deplist perl |grep -C 3 mod_perl > dependency: perl(warnings) > provider: perl.i386 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > provider: perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > provider: mod_perl-devel.x86_64 2.0.3-7 > provider: mod_perl-devel.i386 2.0.3-7 > dependency: perl(Pod::Usage) > provider: perl.i386 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > provider: perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > -- > dependency: perl(warnings) > provider: perl.i386 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > provider: perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > provider: mod_perl-devel.x86_64 2.0.3-7 > provider: mod_perl-devel.i386 2.0.3-7 > dependency: perl(Pod::Usage) > provider: perl.i386 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > provider: perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 > [matej@hubmaier ~]$ > > which means IMHO that this dependency will be preferably satisfied by perl > package itself. In theory that is correct, and traditional yum behaviour has always been to choose the package with the shortest name in the event of multiple packages providing a dependency, hence perl would be preferred to mod_perl-devel. However, there have been many reports of packages with longer names being selected in F7, and this would appear to be an instance of this. It could probably be worked around by doing: # yum --exclude=mod_perl-devel install perl but surely nobody would deny that having mod_perl-devel provide perl(warnings) is a bug? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
