Once upon a time, Warren Togami <warren@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> * Remove brp-compress calls from all packages, as it isn't doing
> anything useful. (Right?)
For packages that build the filelist in %install, it is needed
(otherwise the filenames change).
Alternately, packages that build the filelist could use something like:
perl -lpi -e '$_.="*"if(m!^(/usr/share/man|/usr/lib/perl5/man)!)' filelist
> * %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> Many of the ancient specs have this. Might be nice to get rid of it,
> but it will require some careful verification comparing the before and
> after in order to be sure the rpm-auto-dep isn't demanding bad
> dependencies like Win32 crap. Is this worth doing? Need your opinions.
I only use it when I need to strip out a dependency. When I need it, I
put the following in my %install:
# Strip out some dependencies
cat > find-requires.sh <<'EOF'
exec %{__find_requires} "$@" | egrep -v '^perl\((Crypt::IDEA|Term::ReadKey)\)$'
EOF
chmod +x find-requires.sh
%define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
%define __find_requires %{_builddir}/%{buildsubdir}/find-requires.sh
I prefer doing it this way instead of with an extra Source*: script;
this way, the script is generated on the fly (especially useful when
using the same SRPM on multiple platforms, where find-requires may not
be in /usr/lib/rpm). It also makes the stripped out dependencies part
of the spec file directly.
> Contributors like Ville, Robert and Jose have been very helpful in
> submitting good spec rewrites for perl packages in the past. So I hope
> the community can help with cleaned up spec unidiffs (along with version
> upgrades) to be submitted to Bugzilla, one report per package. Perhaps
> discuss here who will do which package. I'll do some myself.
If I can get some time (and my spec files are acceptable), I would be
glad to help. Here is a quick list of apparent older versions in
rawhide compared to CPAN:
Archive-Tar rawhide 1.08 CPAN:1.23
BSD-Resource rawhide 1.23 CPAN:1.24
Bit-Vector rawhide 6.3 CPAN:6.4
Compress-Zlib rawhide 1.33 CPAN:1.34
DBD-Pg rawhide 1.31 CPAN:1.40
DBI rawhide 1.40 CPAN:1.48
Date-Calc rawhide 5.3 CPAN:5.4
Digest-SHA1 rawhide 2.07 CPAN:2.10
File-MMagic rawhide 1.21 CPAN:1.22
Frontier-RPC rawhide 0.06 CPAN:0.07b4
HTML-Parser rawhide 3.35 CPAN:3.45
Net-DNS rawhide 0.48 CPAN:0.49
PDL rawhide 2.4.1 CPAN:2.4.2
TermReadKey rawhide 2.20 CPAN:2.30
Text-Kakasi rawhide 1.05 CPAN:2.04
Time-HiRes rawhide 1.55 CPAN:1.66
URI rawhide 1.30 CPAN:1.35
XML-Twig rawhide 3.13 CPAN:3.17
libwww-perl rawhide 5.79 CPAN:5.803
libxml-perl rawhide 0.07 CPAN:0.08
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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
