On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>> "IA" == Iain Arnell
<iarnell(a)gmail.com> writes:
IA> The only documentation I'm aware of is the same draft you're working
IA> on.
Ah, OK. For some reason I interpreted what I read to say that the Perl
filtering macros had been rewritten to make use of the new filtering
system. I'm still hoping that's possible, but differences in regexp
language and the vagaries of rpm macro expansion would seem to make it
rather difficult.
Yes, perl_default_filter macro has been rewritten to use rpm's new
features. And as part of the perl 5.14 rebuild, all of the perl-* spec
files that extend the default filtering have been updated to use the
new macros directly, while preserving the old-style macros for f14/f15
(in the same way I suggest for vym). It was considerably simpler to
update the ~70 or so affected packages than try to make the old filter
macros work with new exclude stuff. It's a little messy, but hopefully
we'll be able to clean up this time next year.
--
Iain.