__perl_requires misbehaving in rawhide (rpm or grep broken??)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Feb 3 07:42:02 UTC 2011


On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:59:07 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:

> For the last week or so I've been getting broken-dependencies nagmail
> about
> 
> 	mysql-test-5.5.8-6.fc15.x86_64 requires perl(mtr_misc.pl)
> 
> The depchecker is correct about that: the RPM built by koji shows an
> unresolved dependency of that form.  The question is how that
> dependency is getting past the __perl_requires filter that mysql.spec
> uses, which looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req $* | \
>     grep -v -e "perl(th" \
>     -e "perl(lib::mtr" -e "perl(lib::v1/mtr" -e "perl(mtr"
> 
> What makes this especially weird is that the filter is working to the
> extent of successfully removing several other symbols, including some
> that match the "perl(mtr" pattern.
> 
> This problem appeared after I built mysql 5.5.8-6 on 20-Jan.  The
> dependency filter was working correctly in previous builds, the
> latest being 5.5.8-5 on 13-Jan.  When I build the same SRPM locally
> on my Fedora 13 box, no unexpected requires show up in the result.
> 
> It's a bit hard to credit that grep itself is broken, not least
> because it doesn't appear to have been rebuilt since October.  There
> has been a fair amount of churn in rpm since 13-Jan, though.  Should
> I file this as an rpm bug, or is there some other likely explanation?

RPM 4.9 has made changes in the provides/requires extraction code that
are not entirely backwards-compatible. One of these is in respect of
perl dependency extraction where there is now %__perllib_requires as
well as %__perl_requires. So you need to filter that as well as or
instead of (as necessary) %__perl_requires. You'll need to be careful if
you want the spec to be backwards compatible with older rpm versions
though, where %__perllib_requires isn't defined.

Presumably you can't use
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
because this SRPM builds elf binaries.

Paul.


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