Jens Ahlin wrote: > When trying to build rpm using rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2.tar.gz > fails with > error: Failed build dependencies: > perl(Digest::SHA1) is needed by spamassassin-3.0.2-1 > perl(HTML::Parser) is needed by spamassassin-3.0.2-1 > > After installing these modules using CPAN rpmbuild still fails with the > same error.
You are mixing CPAN installations and RPM installations. RPM does not know about CPAN. Once you have made the decision to install from CPAN you are commited to installing everything from CPAN. You should either install everything with CPAN or install everything with RPM. Don't mix them. The person with two clocks is never really sure of the current time. Since you have been installing perl modules by CPAN you should probably just continue and install spamassassin by CPAN too. Which means you don't need to build an rpm package. But if you want rpm to know that you have those perl modules installed then you need to install them by RPM. > Installing these modules from RPMS solves the problem. Why isn't rpmbuild > find the modules installed using CPAN. Your question is rather like Bilbo Baggins asking "What do I have in my pocket?" How would RPM know what you have installed by CPAN? Bob
