Michael Schwendt wrote: > A look at Fedora 7 package Provides: > > mrtg provides perl(SNMP_util) EQ 0 1.08 > perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(SNMP_util) EQ 0 1.06 > required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch > > mrtg provides perl(SNMP_Session) EQ 0 1.08 > perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(SNMP_Session) EQ 0 1.08 > required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch > required by: mrtg - 2.15.1-2.fc7.i386 > > mrtg provides perl(BER) EQ 0 1.05 > perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(BER) EQ 0 1.05 > required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch > required by: mrtg - 2.15.1-2.fc7.i386 > [snip] > > Some of these may be redundant on purpose. But some look suspicious, > because multiple packages provide the same thing. For example, "mrtg" > provides something required by > "perl-SNMP_Session". > > Comments anyone? mrtg shouldn't provide the above perl modules as they aren't installed under /usr/lib/perl5. mrtg installs them in a mrtg private dir (/usr/lib/mrtg2) which isn't list in the perl search path (array @INC). $ rpm -qpl mrtg-2.15.1-3.fc8.i386.rpm | grep lib ... /usr/lib/mrtg2/BER.pm /usr/lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm /usr/lib/mrtg2/SNMP_util.pm ... $ rpm -qpl perl-SNMP_Session-1.08-3.fc6.noarch.rpm | grep perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/BER.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/SNMP_Session.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/SNMP_util.pm jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto:jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/members/jpo/ *
