Kenneth Porter wrote: > I wanted to install the latest Subversion, version 1.5.1, on CentOS 5. I > knew it wouldn't be in the CentOS repos (although I checked anyway) so I > went looking in Fedora Rawhide and pulled down the SRPM I found there. I > attempted to build it and it failed due to a missing "perl-devel" > package. Some investigation indicates that somewhere in Fedora's history > the headers and development utilities in Perl got broken out into a > separate subpackage. It looks like this happened at 5.8.8-15. > > This is mostly a heads-up to others that might run into this, but I'm > wondering what the best way to deal with it is. Should I comment out the > BuildReq, or create a virtual package that provides perl-devel and > depends on the existing perl package? change perl-devel to perl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20080730/8fcc47a7/attachment-0007.sig>