On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:51, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> Austin Acton wrote on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0500 :
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> > First, it wants to install a file called perllocal.pod in
> > %perl_sitearch.  It just contains info about the package, but the name
> > seems wrong.  In SuSe, they seem to pipe .pod files to /var/adm, but
> > it's all greek to me.  Can I just delete the file?
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> Dunno the answer to that one.
> 
> > Also, rpm seems to add requires:perl-base >= 5.800 to the package. 
> > Since we're using perl 5.8.0, it won't install.  I grepped the source,
> > and there is no reference to '5.800' in the code.  Where is rpm getting
> > this?  Not from the spec file.
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> Bryan Whitehead answered this a couple days ago:
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> This is a bug in rpm (rpm-build to be exact). find.requires is the   
> problem, located in /usr/lib/rpm. look at line 165.
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> When you build you "own" perl based rpm it read the site config version 
> as 5.8.00 but then writes the requires as 5.800 which breaks perl
> builds...
> 
> Pain in the ass I've been dealing with for my perl modules I build at
> JPL.
> 
So Is there a solution? Is there anyone looking at that problem that has
annoyed many of us for long enough?
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Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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