On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
They should all require this; this also indicates what version of Perl this package was built/compiled against, rather than a minimum version of Perl that this module requires to function. (that is, the package requires version x.y.z as it's installed in /usr/lib/perl5/x.y.z/).
Iain is right.... It looks like this is being auto-added.[1] We'd have to fix that in the rpm macros -- and maybe get the filtering macros in there, as I don't seem to be getting much response to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516240 -- then rebuild the impacted packages.
In either case, I'm +1 to the renaming (and am somewhat to blame for the -core name to begin with... sigh). I think we should probably take a look at the package descriptions and summaries as part of this as well.
-Chris
[1] And, can I just say again how erratic our Perl rpm autoreq/prov bits are? In practice Perl metadata like this isn't kept in scripts/modules themselves, and some bits (like Moose traits/roles) are completely masked from it. If we want accurate rpm metadata, we ought to be generating our Perl req/prov out of META.yml and its kind.
Out of the thread on p5p, I'd like to propose the following changes for
F-12:
* Rename "perl-core" to "perl"
* Rename "perl" to "perl-minimal"
The biggest change here is that there are still packages which "Require:
perl", usually to specify a specific minimal version. Here is a list of
rawhide packages which do this:
[...snip...]
They should either have:
1. If they're version dependent, they should have
Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo
$version))
They should all require this; this also indicates what version of Perl this package was built/compiled against, rather than a minimum version of Perl that this module requires to function. (that is, the package requires version x.y.z as it's installed in /usr/lib/perl5/x.y.z/).
2. If they're not, they could either accept the larger install
footprint, or switch to:
Requires: perl-minimal
Iain is right.... It looks like this is being auto-added.[1] We'd have to fix that in the rpm macros -- and maybe get the filtering macros in there, as I don't seem to be getting much response to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516240 -- then rebuild the impacted packages.
In either case, I'm +1 to the renaming (and am somewhat to blame for the -core name to begin with... sigh). I think we should probably take a look at the package descriptions and summaries as part of this as well.
-Chris
[1] And, can I just say again how erratic our Perl rpm autoreq/prov bits are? In practice Perl metadata like this isn't kept in scripts/modules themselves, and some bits (like Moose traits/roles) are completely masked from it. If we want accurate rpm metadata, we ought to be generating our Perl req/prov out of META.yml and its kind.
--
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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