[CentOS-devel] Centos 5.3 dependency check?

Sun Apr 5 15:12:16 UTC 2009
Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>

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Markus Falb wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> 
>> It seems that a package is now added to perl in Centos 5.3 that was not
>> there before.
>>
>> So a dependency on perl-MIME-Base64 will fail because that package now
>> seems to colide with perl itself. (SIGHHHH)
>>
>> How can I change my spec file to list the requirement only for
>> Centos/RHEL 5.x where x < 3?
> 
> hmm. strange enough:
> # cat /etc/redhat-release 
> CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
> # rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(MIME::Base64)'
> perl-5.8.8-15.el5_2.1
> 
> maybe the conditional requirement is not necessary. try a:
> Require: perl(MIME::Base64)

That is not valid.

error: line 30: Unknown tag: Require: perl(MIME::Base64)

Because RH makes a habit of including new packages into perl itself and
using relative old ones there is a definite need to build a package with
 an up-to-date version of this.



Hugo.

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