Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:29:40PM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote: > either by requiring perl explicitly right. > or simply relying on perl always being in the buildroot ... Wrong. As explained in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions_2 and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FullExceptionList you should rather BuildRequire perl in this situation. > ... (which it is). Just by a chance! perl is brought to the root as a dependency of rpm-build, that contains perl scripts to search for automatic dependencies. Actually, I have a plan to replace those by an awk script or something, so that perl does not have to be installed to all mock buildroots. Take care, ;-) Stepan -- 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
