On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu wrote:
"IA" == Iain Arnell iarnell@gmail.com writes:
IA> The only documentation I'm aware of is the same draft you're working IA> on.
Ah, OK. For some reason I interpreted what I read to say that the Perl filtering macros had been rewritten to make use of the new filtering system. I'm still hoping that's possible, but differences in regexp language and the vagaries of rpm macro expansion would seem to make it rather difficult.
Yes, perl_default_filter macro has been rewritten to use rpm's new features. And as part of the perl 5.14 rebuild, all of the perl-* spec files that extend the default filtering have been updated to use the new macros directly, while preserving the old-style macros for f14/f15 (in the same way I suggest for vym). It was considerably simpler to update the ~70 or so affected packages than try to make the old filter macros work with new exclude stuff. It's a little messy, but hopefully we'll be able to clean up this time next year.