I'm thinking it is.  

Seems like I've had problems installing it on SuSE 8/8.1.  Is that
something you can look at?  

tg-master:~ # rpm -qa|grep XML
perl-XML-Writer-0.4-254
perl-XML-Parser-2.31-40
perl-XML-DOM-1.39-35
perl-XML-Generator-0.91-54
tg-master:~ # rpm -Uvh /tmp/perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1.noarch.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
    perl(Carp)   is needed by perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1
    perl(Exporter)   is needed by perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1
    perl(strict)   is needed by perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1
    perl(vars)   is needed by perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1
tg-master:~ # 

All available perl packages are installed on this machine:
tg-master:~ # rpm -qa|grep perl
perl-DateManip-5.40-244
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-300
perl-Tie-IxHash-1.21-334
perl-Time-Period-1.20-36
perl-TimeDate-1.10-332
perl-URI-1.20-39
perl-XML-Writer-0.4-254
perl-Crypt-DES-2.03-109
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.01-153
perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-39
perl-gettext-1.01-325
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-237
perl-XML-Parser-2.31-40
perl-5.8.0-58
perl-Convert-BER-1.31-327
perl-Net-SNMP-4.0.2-35
perl-Tk-800.024-52
perl-libwww-perl-5.65-41
perl-Net_SSLeay-1.18-42
perl-Mon-0.11-36
postgresql-perl-7.2.2-35
mod_perl-1.27-50
perl-SNMP-4.2.0-334
perl-XML-DOM-1.39-35
perl-XML-Generator-0.91-54


tg-master:~ # cat /etc/issue
Welcome to SuSE SLES 8 (powered by UnitedLinux 1.0) (i586)


I believe I get the same errors when installing the non-sles version
that you can install via this boot iso here:

    http://alpaca.mcs.anl.gov/suse/i386/8.1/boot/boot.iso

-Brian



Thus spake Sean Dague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
> > I also think that would be a good thing to do.  Can you make those 
> > changes, Lorn?
> > 
> > Also, with regard to the perl-XML-simple issue, I seem to recall that
> > the last time I worked on that, I determined that making a single RPM
> > that would work across distributions would be difficult, perhaps not
> > possible.  
> 
> I built a spec file that should build just such an rpm last year.  It may
> need updating to the lastest version of XML::Simple, but it should work for
> all versions of Red Hat > 7.0.  Mandrake and SuSE already ship their own
> version of the rpm.
> 
>       -Sean
> 
> -- 
> __________________________________________________________________
> 
> Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
> sean at dague dot net                            Linux Users Group
> http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org
> 
> There is no silver bullet.  Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
> than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
> __________________________________________________________________

> %define name            perl-XML-Simple
> %define version         1.08
> %define release         1
> %define prefix          /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> 
> Summary: AppConfig
> Name: %name
> Version: %version
> Release: %release
> Copyright: GPL & Artistic License
> URL: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=XML::Simple
> Group: Development/Perl
> Source: XML-Simple-%{version}.tar.gz
> Requires: perl, perl-XML-Parser
> Vendor: http://sisuite.org
> Packager: SIS Devel Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Prefix: %prefix
> Buildroot: /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root
> BuildArchitectures: noarch
> 
> %description
> XML::Simple - Easy API to read/write XML (esp config files)
> 
> The XML::Simple module provides a simple API layer on top of the XML::Parser
> module.  Two functions are exported: XMLin() and XMLout().
> 
> %prep
> %setup -c -n %{name}-%{version}
> 
> # No configure, no make, just copy files to the output dir.
> %build
> cd XML-Simple-%{version}
> perl Makefile.PL INSTALLSITELIB=/var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root%{prefix} 
> INSTALLMAN1DIR=/var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root/usr/share/man/man1 
> INSTALLMAN3DIR=/var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root/usr/share/man/man3
> make
> make test
> make install
> rm -rf /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root%{prefix}/auto
> 
> %clean
> rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_DIR/*
> rm -rf /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-root
> 
> %files
> %defattr(-,root,root)
> %doc XML-Simple-%{version}/README
> /usr/share/man
> %{prefix}/XML
> 
> %changelog
> * Tue Nov 19 2002 Sean Dague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.08-1
> - Initial creation of this spec file
> 
> 




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