On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:46:32 +0000 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? One thing I just noticed about this approach is that it causes the dependency on rtld(GNU_HASH) to get dropped too. Don't know why but possibly a side-effect of turning off the internal dependency generator. 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
