On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:32 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > recently, i tried to install the perl-based "kwiki" package on my > FC3 system. beforehand, i noticed that it had the "perl(IPC::Run)" > dependency. i just assumed that this meant that i needed that perl > module on my system, so i perl-CPANed it down, and tried the install. > > the install failed, claiming that that dependency was missing. > someone suggested that i needed to explicitly needed to install the > IPC::Run *RPM*. i did, and it satisfied the dependency, but i'm a bit > baffled. > > what does it mean to have a listed dependency of "perl(XXX:YYY)"? > do i really have to satisfy that dependency with an explicit RPM > install? Yes. RPM only knows about its database, and doesn't know about anything else. So whatever you install with CPAN (which, from rpm's POV, is just a manual install), rpm will not know about it. As with any other installation, you will have to package a package into an rpm for rpm to know about it. Ralf _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
