Autoconf in rawhide broken?

Petr Pisar ppisar at redhat.com
Wed Apr 10 08:54:31 UTC 2013


On 2013-04-10, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> wrote:
> I have a question here, Kevin (or others).  What action fixed the
> dependency hell for this issue?

<http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/perl.git/commit/?id=8bb72978405d9fbb30cf160f18cd789f7b4062ab>

We excluded some scripts delivered in binary `perl' package from
scanning by automatic Provides-generator. The scripts defines `Carp'
perl module internally what fools the generator to export it as
`perl(Carp)' dependency symbol.

Without the fix, `perl' package declared it provides Carp module on RPM
level, which was not true on Perl code level, so while yum got satisfied
with `perl' package, none Carp module was installed into the system and
that made other Perl code using the Carp module, like autconf, unhappy.

-- Petr



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