On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:05:43 -0800 Mike Ramirez <gufymike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I wnet to #fedora first, they sent me to upstream, I checked with > #perl, no reply. Then I realized this is the probably the best place > to ask. > > I had an issue earlier where CGI.pm wasn't installed (or in the @INC > path). Searching a bit more shows me that perl-core meta-package (not > installed) lists it as a dependency (requires perl-CGI), perl package > says it provides it though [1]. This is fedora 13 installed from the > KDE spin. > > Also, I don't install many perl packages for my own use, so the > packages that depend on it are not installed. Which this and the KDE > spin base, makes me suspect this makes it a race condition. > > I also saw the bug report (Bug 486579 ) but was listed as wont fix > (this suggests splitting perl-CGI into two seperate packages), it > appears to have been rejected as a wontfix > > Technically, the question is, why isn't CGI.pm installed/available > with just perl, is this a bug, race condition or expected behavior? > > The reason this comes up is that Go lang just introduced new tests > that require CGI.pm, which is what I require it for. The go team is > going to change the tests to skip it if CGI.pm isn't available I > think. > > I did fix this with `yum install perl-CGI`. > > Also the go maintainer might want to add this to the spec file for > go-lang with the rpm that distributes the tests. Yes, if a package needs it for its test suite, the spec for that package should have: BuildRequires: perl(CGI) That will work regardless of whether CGI.pm is in the main perl package or in a separate perl-CGI package. Paul. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
