On Tue, Sep 19, 2006, Adam D. Morley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:36:07AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006, Adam D. Morley wrote:
> > > So somewhere from the upgrade to 2.5 to 2.20060622, openpkg build seems
> > > to have missed the addition of sqlite as a requirement for perl-dbi.
> > > Likely because 2.5's perl-dbi has "with_dbd_sqlite" set to "no", so the
> > > build script must not consider this possibility?
> >
> > Yes, seems like "openpkg build" has no possibility here. The default
> > was "no" in 2.5 and is "yes" in 2.20060622. So, "openpkg build"
> > thinks that the "no" in 2.5 was _manually_ set and correctly forward
> > passes-through this value to the build of 2.20060622. There is real
> > solution for this dependency-change-on-upgrade dilemma as RPM doesn't
> > safe information whether an option was _explicitly_ set or not (and this
> > way is set to the default). But I've now at least added the dependency
> > perl-dbi::with_dbd_sqlite=yes to perl-dbix.
>
> Hmm. Does this mean an upgrade from 2.5 -> 2.20060622 will now "break"
> when it sees perl-dbi installed with "with_dbd_sqlite=no"? Mostly, I'm
> just concerned about others upgrading from 2.5, as this is the one time
> I'll have to do it.
Yes, seems like this is a nasty upgrade pitfall everyone can jump into.
It at least hurts for those who used perl-dbix. But the solution is
simple: one just has to _know_ to pass -Dwith_dbd_sqlite=yes on the
"openpkg build" command when upgrading.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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