News from rebuild

[Marcela Maslanova]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
> To: "Fedora perl development team" <perl-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 4:41:37 PM
> Subject: Re: News from rebuild
> On 06/24/2011 02:41 PM, Iain Arnell wrote:
> > 2011/6/24 Marcela Mašláňová<mmaslano at redhat.com>:
> >>
> >> Another thing are filters. I suppose it isn't in Guidelines yet,
> >> but old
> >> filters doesn't work, because they do not have support in rpm. You
> >> can
> >> use something like this before prep section in your specfile.
> >> %{?perl_default_filter}
> >> %global __provides_exclude
> >> %{?__provides_exclude}|perl\\(XML::SAX::PurePerl\\)
> >> %global __requires_exclude
> >> %{?__requires_exclude}|perl\\(XML::SAX::PurePerl::DTDDecls\\)
> >
> > Marcela,
> >
> > since you're checking out all the specs as part of the rebuild, is
> > there any chance you could do a simple grep for old-style filtering
> > (i.e. __perl_provides, __perl_requires, filter_provides,
> > filter_requires) so that we have a list of all specs that need to be
> > fixed?
> 
> Please bear in mind when fixing filters that some packagers may wish
> to
> keep their spec files EPEL-compatible; filters based on
> __perl_provides/__perl_requires can be retained harmlessly if filters
> based on __requires_exclude/__provides_exclude are added since rpm
> prior
> to 4.9 ignores that latter and rpm 4.9 onwards effectively ignores the
> former.
> 
> Anyone that's stripped out buildroot definition/cleaning and/or
> defattr
> lines won't be concerned about EPEL compatibility though (at least not
> EPEL < 6).
> 
> Paul.
> --

I'm sorry if I removed it from some packages, which you need. I fixed some
packages, which were using macro, which didn't work in last Fedora or two.
So, I thought no-one care about them much. You are right that these macros
are not the best thing because lost compatibility :-/

We might create some script for cpanspec to create/change missing parts 
for different releases...

-- 
Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno