Redundant/conflicting Perl Provides?

[Michael Schwendt]

A look at Fedora 7 package Provides:

mrtg provides perl(SNMP_util) EQ 0 1.08
perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(SNMP_util) EQ 0 1.06
  required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch

mrtg provides perl(SNMP_Session) EQ 0 1.08
perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(SNMP_Session) EQ 0 1.08
  required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch
  required by: mrtg - 2.15.1-2.fc7.i386

mrtg provides perl(BER) EQ 0 1.05
perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(BER) EQ 0 1.05
  required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch
  required by: mrtg - 2.15.1-2.fc7.i386

samba provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
smbldap-tools provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
  required by: smbldap-tools - 0.9.2-5.fc7.noarch

perl-Email-MIME provides perl(Email::MIME) EQ 0 1.859
perl-Email-MIME-Creator provides perl(Email::MIME)
  required by: bugzilla - 3.0-3.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper - 1.313-2.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME-Creator - 1.453-1.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME-Modifier - 1.441-1.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-Reply - 1.201-3.fc7.noarch
  required by: bugzilla - 3.0-3.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper - 1.313-2.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME-Modifier - 1.441-1.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-Reply - 1.201-3.fc7.noarch

perl-Email-Simple provides perl(Email::Simple)
perl-Email-Simple-Creator provides perl(Email::Simple)
  required by: perl-Email-Abstract - 2.132-3.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME - 1.859-1.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-Send - 2.185-2.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-Abstract - 2.132-3.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-MIME - 1.859-1.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-Send - 2.185-2.fc7.noarch

perl-Time-Piece provides perl(Time::Piece) EQ 0 1.09
perl-Time-Piece-MySQL provides perl(Time::Piece)
  required by: perl-Email-Date - 1.102-2.fc7.noarch
  required by: perl-Time-Piece-MySQL - 0.05-3.fc6.noarch
  required by: perl-Time-Piece-MySQL - 0.05-3.fc6.noarch
  required by: perl-Email-Date - 1.102-2.fc7.noarch

perl-Class-DBI-Loader provides perl(Class::DBI::Loader::Generic) EQ 0 0.30
perl-Class-DBI-Loader-Relationship provides perl(Class::DBI::Loader::Generic)
  required by: perl-Class-DBI-Loader - 0.33-1.fc6.noarch


Some of these may be redundant on purpose. But some look suspicious,
because multiple packages provide the same thing. For example, "mrtg"
provides something required by
"perl-SNMP_Session".

Comments anyone?

Redundant/conflicting Perl Provides? (mrtg/perl-SNMP_Session)

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  A look at Fedora 7 package Provides:
>  
>  mrtg provides perl(SNMP_util) EQ 0 1.08
>  perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(SNMP_util) EQ 0 1.06
>   required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch
>  
>  mrtg provides perl(SNMP_Session) EQ 0 1.08
>  perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(SNMP_Session) EQ 0 1.08
>   required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch
>   required by: mrtg - 2.15.1-2.fc7.i386
>  
>  mrtg provides perl(BER) EQ 0 1.05
>  perl-SNMP_Session provides perl(BER) EQ 0 1.05
>   required by: perl-SNMP_Session - 1.08-3.fc6.noarch
>   required by: mrtg - 2.15.1-2.fc7.i386
>   
[snip]

>  
>  Some of these may be redundant on purpose. But some look suspicious,
>  because multiple packages provide the same thing. For example, "mrtg"
>  provides something required by
>  "perl-SNMP_Session".
>  
>  Comments anyone? 

mrtg shouldn't provide the above perl modules as they aren't
installed under /usr/lib/perl5.  mrtg installs them in
a mrtg private dir (/usr/lib/mrtg2) which isn't list in the perl
search path (array @INC).

$ rpm -qpl mrtg-2.15.1-3.fc8.i386.rpm | grep lib
...
/usr/lib/mrtg2/BER.pm
/usr/lib/mrtg2/SNMP_Session.pm
/usr/lib/mrtg2/SNMP_util.pm
...

$ rpm -qpl perl-SNMP_Session-1.08-3.fc6.noarch.rpm | grep perl5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/BER.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/SNMP_Session.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/SNMP_util.pm

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Redundant/conflicting Perl Provides? (smbldap_tools)

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
...
>  samba provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
>  smbldap-tools provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
>   required by: smbldap-tools - 0.9.2-5.fc7.noarch 
[snip]

>  
>  Comments anyone?
>   
samba shouldn't provide perl(smbldap_tools) as it ships
smbldap as docs.

Solutions:
1) filter the provides list in samba
  /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.25b/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.2/smbldap_tools.pm
2) create a samba-smbldap-tools subpackage

$ rpm -qpl samba-3.0.25b-3.fc8.i386.rpm | grep smbldap
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.25b/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.2
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.25b/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.2/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.25b/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.2/COPYING
...

jpo
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Redundant/conflicting Perl Provides? (smbldap_tools)

[Steven Pritchard]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:10:36PM +0100, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
>  Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  ...
>  > samba provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
>  > smbldap-tools provides perl(smbldap_tools) EQ 0 1.00
>  >  required by: smbldap-tools - 0.9.2-5.fc7.noarch
>  
>  [snip]
>  
>  > 
>  > Comments anyone?
>  > 
>  
>  samba shouldn't provide perl(smbldap_tools) as it ships
>  smbldap as docs.
>  
>  Solutions:
>  1) filter the provides list in samba
>    /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.25b/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.2/smbldap_tools.pm
>  2) create a samba-smbldap-tools subpackage 
More like 2) stop shipping redundant bits in the samba package.

Steve
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[Tom Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 14:45 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  perl-Email-MIME provides perl(Email::MIME) EQ 0 1.859
>  perl-Email-MIME-Creator provides perl(Email::MIME)
>    required by: bugzilla - 3.0-3.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper -
>  1.313-2.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME-Creator - 1.453-1.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME-Modifier - 1.441-1.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-Reply - 1.201-3.fc7.noarch
>    required by: bugzilla - 3.0-3.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper -
>  1.313-2.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME-Modifier - 1.441-1.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-Reply - 1.201-3.fc7.noarch
>  
>  perl-Email-Simple provides perl(Email::Simple)
>  perl-Email-Simple-Creator provides perl(Email::Simple)
>    required by: perl-Email-Abstract - 2.132-3.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME - 1.859-1.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-Send - 2.185-2.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-Abstract - 2.132-3.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-MIME - 1.859-1.fc7.noarch
>    required by: perl-Email-Send - 2.185-2.fc7.noarch
>
>  perl-Class-DBI-Loader provides perl(Class::DBI::Loader::Generic) EQ 0
>  0.30
>  perl-Class-DBI-Loader-Relationship provides
>  perl(Class::DBI::Loader::Generic)
>    required by: perl-Class-DBI-Loader - 0.33-1.fc6.noarch  
All of these are false provides. I'm fixing them right now, thanks for
the note.

~spot

[Joe Orton]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:45:32PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  Comments anyone? 
Fixing perl.prov to not create so many false provides might be simpler 
than going around adding filters to a dozen packages?  Are there common 
cases that perl.prov is screwing up here?

joe