[SPAM] Re: [CentOS] dag repo and perl dependencies naming

[Ralph Angenendt]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> > There is not a bug in yum (well, not in this case ... I'm sure yum has
> > some bugs) ... the problem is that the repositories that you have chosen
> > have conflicting packages, or you are not pointed to the proper CentOS
> > repos.
> 
> This is a bug in Yum. Yum only considers the latest version of amavisd-new 
> and that one has unresolved dependencies.
> 
> I have a problem here. I try so hard not to replace core packages, but 
> amavisd-new needs a newer perl module that is a core package.
> 
> Either people complain that I replace core packages, or they complain that 
> I do not have amavisd-new 3.4 and if I provide both, Yum would complain 
> anyway because it is stupid.  

The problem is that you have to replace *perl* to meet the dependency on
Digest::MD5 amavisd-new is having. Because of the shitty @INC ordering
in RHEL (*and* perl itself) you cannot even push a new Digest::MD5 to
vendor_perl/ or site_perl/ as that is not going to be picked up:

|   @INC:
|     /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
|     /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
|     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
|     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
|     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
|     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
|     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
|     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl

There's a bugzilla entry concerning that (which I cannot find anymore at
the moment), but it didn't look like RH wanted to change that.

So I don't think that this is a yum bug, this is a bug in RedHat's perl
packaging, as you are not able to override modules which are included
with the core perl package. And that hasn't change up to FC5.

Ralph
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