On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:39:49 -0700
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Chris Adams
<cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
wrote:
> Once upon a time, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi> said:
>> On Friday 12 March 2010, Chris Adams wrote:
>> > This is similar to mrtg vs. perl-SNMP_Session; mrtg has its own
>> > private copy of the SNMP_Session perl modules, but they are
>> > found by the auto-provides (so the RPM lists them). Then mrtg
>> > is a shorter name than perl-SNMP_Session, so a package requiring
>> > "perl(SNMP_Session)" gets a broken install.
>>
>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563619
>
> Yeah, that's a dupe of my 4 month old bug:
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532556
>
> I looked at the RHEL 5.5 beta, but I didn't see a new mrtg package.
Is there something we can put in the spec files to tell RPM not to
look at it?
Packages requiring perl(SNMP_Session) could add a manual dependency on
perl-SNMP_Session; this will pick up the wanted package and won't be
fooled by the imposter.
Paul.