In regard to: directory conflicts between packages, Tim Mooney said (at...:
At least on RHEL 9, though, with rpm 4.16.1.3, that's treated as an error:
Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32/auto/Test from install of
perl-Test-Exception-0.43-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
perl-Test-Pod-1.52-1.x86_64
file /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32/Test from install of
perl-Test-Exception-0.43-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
perl-Test-Pod-1.52-1.x86_64
I figured this out, and the error was mine.
It's still fine (AFAICT) for perl modules to share directories when
needed, and for each of them to claim a directory like
%{perl_sitelib}/Test
Where the problem happens is if one of the packages specifies different
permissions for that directory.
In my case, our local perl-Test-Pod was specifying an incorrect group on
that directory. We've historically used
%define OWNER root
%define GROUP local
at the top of our local spec files and then
%defattr(-,%{OWNER},%{GROUP})
in the %files section, along with managing permissions as needed.
The problem is that %{GROUP} became a pre-defined macro based on the
Group: tag with rpm in RHEL 8, and some of our spec files haven't been
updated to change our conflicting %{GROUP} to something else.
perl-Test-Pod was one of them. Once I fixed that, the problem went away.
Sorry for the noise.
Tim
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