On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:19:09AM +0100, Jitka Plesnikova wrote: > Hi, > > I added the package perl-generators-epel to EPEL 7/8/9. The package is > adding the behavior provided in perl-generators-1.16. > > I created pull requests for epel-rpm-macros to add perl-generators-epel > to EPEL buildroot. > > Pull Request > EPEL 7: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/61 > EPEL 8: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/60 > EPEL 9: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/59 > > Could anybody please merge them and build the packages or shall I do it > myself?
Done. Building now.
Thanks for the pr's
kevin
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> Thanks,
> Jitka
>
> On 12/6/22 04:40, Maxwell G via epel-devel wrote:
> > On Mon Dec 5, 2022 at 21:52 +0100, Jitka Plesnikova wrote:
> > > Could be the following file added to the package epel-rpm-macros (or
> > > anything like this) for EPEL 9?
> > It could, but it might be better to include this in a subpackage of
> > epel-rpm-macros or as a separate perl-generators-epel component. We
> > could pull it in with (package-name-here if perl-generators). This won't
> > work in EPEL 7 which unfortunately doesn't support rich dependencies.
> >
> > > But I don't know how to do it for EPEL 7/8, because the above file
> > > doesn't work.
> > > It ends with error [2]:
> > > error: Couldn't exec perl-libs: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea if there is any other way how to provide
> > > maintainers this functionality for EPEL 7/8?
> > Parametric macro dependency generators are not supported in EPEL 7 and
> > 8's RPM versions. You can still implement this using a "regular"
> > dependency generator. This is also described in the RPM
> > documentation[1]. Instead of specifying %__perlcompat_requires() and
> > writing an RPM macro that accepts a path name as %1, you specify
> > `%__percompat_requires /path/to/executable`. That script receives a
> > newline separated list of paths as stdin and prints the generated
> > dependencies to stdout separated by newlines.
> >
> > So perlcompat.attr could look something like
> >
> > ```
> > %__perlcompat_requires %{_rpmconfigdir}/perlcompat.req %{perl_version}
> >
> > # %%__perlcompat_path can stay the same.
> > ```
> >
> > These are usually stored in %%{_rpmconfigdir}. %%{perl_version} is
> > passed to the script as an argument, because the script of course
> > doesn't have access to the RPM context. This can be any executable
> > written in any language, but it should be straightforward to do this in
> > shell.
> >
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/dependency_generators.html
> >
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