Bug#925590: fai-client: remove "libfile-lchown-perl" dependency from fcopy

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Lange
lchown is only needed if a symlink needs to be changed. One option would be to add some code which does only loads this perl module if we have a symlink. This conditional loading of a Perl package can be done using eval "require File::lchown" If this fails, we cannot load the package, but the

Bug#925590: fai-client: remove "libfile-lchown-perl" dependency from fcopy

2019-03-27 Thread Reiner Schulz
Package: fai-client Version: 5.3.6 Severity: wishlist Dear Thomas, We like to update "fai-client" on our RHEL7 Servers to the latest version, but since fai 5.3.5 there is a dependency to "libfile-lchown-perl", which is not available on RHEL7, EPEL or CentOS7. Functions of