[Bug 487067] Review Request: autopsy - Graphical front end for The Sleuth Kit Forensics software

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--- Comment #4 from Till Maas <opensource at till.name>  2009-03-31 08:04:43 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> 
> > - Installation failed
> > rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/autopsy-2.21-1.fc10.noarch.rpm 
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         perl(Main) is needed by autopsy-2.21-1.fc10.noarch
> >         perl(conf.pl) is needed by autopsy-2.21-1.fc10.noarch
> >         perl(define.pl) is needed by autopsy-2.21-1.fc10.noarch
> >         perl(lib::define.pl) is needed by autopsy-2.21-1.fc10.noarch
> >         perl(search.pl) is needed by autopsy-2.21-1.fc10.noarch
> 
>  Suravee, please use "yum install" when testing if packages can be installed.
> "rpm -Uvh"  might lead to false conclusions due to the fact that it does not
> try to pull in dependencies from the repositories.  

In this case, these are false provides/requires of private perl files from
autopsys, that should not be provided/required by rpm:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl#Filtering_Requires:_and_Provides

This needs to be fixed. Here is a list of problematic files and the
requires/provides:
http://fpaste.org/paste/7441


Another issue is, that "-p" is not used with install to preserve timestamps.

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