On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 10:21, Smith, Eric V. wrote: > I'm attempting to install yum-0.9.4-2_8x.noarch.rpm on a RedHat 8.0 box. > rpm tells me that yum requires perl. Why would that be the case? I'm > trying to build a box without perl. I've installed the source rpm and I > don't see anywhere that perl is actually used. yah. That's a fib and an old fib. A while ago yum did require perl for a silly function in the cron job. Now it does this internally. I'll remove it from the spec file - thanks for reminding me. > Is perl really required? If not, is my best bet to rebuild the rpm from > source without the perl reference, or is there a newer version I should > be using? Remove Requires: perl > I've searched the yum mailing list and googled, but I can't find any > reference to this. no one has brought it up until now. -sv
