On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:02:01 -0800 Chris Weyl <cweyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I do think that filtering these provides is the right thing to do > > but I'm not sure about the approach. Whilst it should be fine for a > > regular perl module package, it could cause problems for > > mixed-language packages where there are other valid provides that > > should be included but are not found by the perl provides script. > > An alternative approach for such cases would be, e.g. > > > > # don't provide the private XS.so lib > > %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 > > %global provfind /bin/sh -c "%__find_provides | grep -v '^XS[.]so'" > > %global __find_provides %provfind > > > > Yeah. I was using as a simple case the filtering needed in > perl-Readonly-XS... Others will be different, e.g. perl-Imager > requires a bunch filtered: > > perl-Imager ==> CountColor.so()(64bit) > perl-Imager ==> DynTest.so()(64bit) > perl-Imager ==> Flines.so()(64bit) > perl-Imager ==> ICO.so()(64bit) > perl-Imager ==> Imager.so()(64bit) > perl-Imager ==> Mandelbrot.so()(64bit) > perl-Imager ==> SGI.so()(64bit) > > The following snippet just filters any .so files under > %perl_vendorarch from being run through %__find_provides: > > # don't "provide" private Perl libs > %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 > %global provfind /bin/sh -c "grep -v '%perl_vendorarch.*\\.so$' | > %__find_provides" > %global __find_provides %provfind > > Looking at just the packages installed on my system, I see 208 > '*perl*' packages providing shared libs; for 432 .so's. > > http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/impacted_packages > http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/private_libs I like the look of that one, seems suitable as an addition to the arch-specific perl package template perhaps? Paul. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
