[Bug 924938] wrong provides in latest build

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Sun Mar 24 16:55:19 UTC 2013


Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924938

--- Comment #14 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> This simple patch seems to fix it here: 
> 
> diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
> index 2db2cc9..16b7cb7 100644
> --- a/perl.spec
> +++ b/perl.spec
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  # intentionally (unversioned perl(DB) is removed and versioned one is kept)
>  %global __provides_exclude_from
> .*/auto/.*\\.so$|.*/%{perl_archlib}/.*\\.so$|%{_docdir}
>  %global __requires_exclude_from %{_docdir}
> -%global __provides_exclude perl\\((VMS|Win32|BSD::|DB\\)$)
> +%global __provides_exclude perl\\((Carp|VMS|Win32|BSD::|DB\\)$)
>  # unicore::Name - it's needed by perl, maybe problem of rpm

> Can folks confirm?

Well, to me, this patch is more a cludge to dampen the issue than an actual
fix.

I would rather see the cause (according to what other say a bug in file) fixed
instead of adding cludges, because I'd expect the "actual bug" will trigger
further similar issues elsewhere.

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