Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924938 --- Comment #26 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to comment #24) > It's still the same problem. File output is unreliable and I think it should > not be used for use-cases where you really want to be sure. Agreed. Rpm's file-type detection needs to be a multi-staged, heuristical process with (IMO) file being the last resort, in cases all else fail. > What I could do is to increase the strength of "shebang" patterns, so it > would detect "/usr/bin/automake" as "Perl script" again. IMO, this would be a step into the correct direction. > The question is, > what is the difference between Perl Module and Perl Script except the > possible extension? The file name extension is the #1 distinction criterion. Additional ones are the shebang and yet another one is "executable-permissions". However, there is a difference between the general case of guessing on a file's type and on processing a specific file in context of rpm and perl-modules (c.f. the next sentence) > Can Perl file with shebang contain Perl Module? rpm-relevant perl-modules *must* be on the search-path provided through "@INC" (cf. perl -V) and *must* be named '*.pm' (cf. man perlmod). Though, I am not aware about perl prohibiting them to carry shebangs or these file to carry executable permission, they usually don't have either. Files named *.pl (such as the perl5db.pl case, here), however never are modules and therefore should never provide rpm perl()-provides. In other words, I think Matthias filter proposal could be extended to exclude all files on the "@INC" path not named '*.pm' from generating "perl()'-provides, rsp. to let rpm only generate "perl()-provs" for files matching "*.pm" and being under "@INC". [There is a corner case: While *.pls normally do not provide perl-modules, they may contain self-provided perl-modules] -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. Unsubscribe from this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/token.cgi?t=xhZz6BkZbn&a=cc_unsubscribe -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
