[Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] Start size reduction

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:32:11 -0500
> Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:
>
>> Syslinux upstream has the perl dep fixed.  It just needs to be
>> patched in Fedora or a new release used.
>
> The new one is in f15... we just need to get it pushed to f14.
>
> koji latest-pkg dist-f15 syslinux
> Build                                     Tag                   Built by
> ----------------------------------------  --------------------  ----------------
> syslinux-4.02-1.fc15                      dist-f15              pjones
>
> However:
>
> [root at thulsadoom ~]# rpm -q syslinux
> syslinux-4.02-1.fc15.x86_64
> [root at thulsadoom ~]# rpm -q syslinux --requires | grep perl
> /usr/bin/perl
> perl(Crypt::PasswdMD5)
> perl(Cwd)
> perl(Digest::SHA1)
> perl(Errno)
> perl(Fcntl)
> perl(IO::Handle)
> perl(MIME::Base64)
> perl(Socket)
> perl(bytes)
> perl(integer)
>
> Was the intention to split out a syslinux-perl package? or ?

I suspect Peter missed that there's a duplicate of the tool, and kept
the perl version in, instead of the new C version, and thus those are
all picked up by the auto dep finder.