[Mageia-dev] Notice on rpm-mageia-setup's find-requires script

Fri May 6 15:21:47 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 10:07 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit :
+> Hello,
+> 
+> There is something wrong with my bugzilla account. so I post the
+> relevant info here.
+> 
+> `file` changes its output recently, maybe in 5.05, which affects
+> find-requires in rpm-setup-build's helper.
+> 
+> In 5.03 (in mandriva 2010) for instance:
+> $ file /usr/bin/genhdlist2
+> /usr/bin/genhdlist2: a /usr/bin/perl script text executable
+> 
+> But in 5.06 (in mandriva cooker and mageia cauldron):
+> $ file /usr/bin/genhdlist2
+> /usr/bin/genhdlist2: a /usr/bin/perl script, ASCII text executable
+> 
+> Such a change will cause find-requires cannot find correct perl
+> scripts, thus missing requirements for the package. Maybe someone
+> would be interesting on this:
+> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft?view=revision&revision=272567
+> 
+> And, maybe a robot could rebuild all the relevant packages, which
+> might be a huge work, especially when the release is coming.
+
+So the impact is that package do not have a requires on perl, or that
+all perl deps are missing ?
+( ie, automated requires on perl module ).
+
+If that's the first, since perl is almost installed by default, it
+should be hard to notice the problem 
+
+FOr the second, that's more serious :)
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+