As I understand it, the current version of rpmbuild works generates the Requires and Provides definitions for an RPM by parsing the Perl code and working out which modules are used (for Requires) or defined (for Provides).
I don't want to get into a discussion of the rights or wrongs of this approach, but for my own RPMs, I'd like to experiment with creating the Requires and Provides definitions by parsing the META.yml file.
I've found three files in /usr/lib/rpm - perldeps.pl, perl.prov and perl.req - which seem to do the work, so I assume these are the files I'll need to replace.
Can someone please confirm that these are the files that I need to work on and (even better) point me at some documentation for how these programs are called - what inputs and outputs are expected, stuff like that.
Also, is there a way to provide my own replacement for these files without just overwriting them. I'd rather not fiddle directly with system supplied code.
Any advice appreciated. Cheers, Dave... -- 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
