On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 18:07 +0200, Iain Arnell wrote:
> okay, not actually broken, but this is definitely messing with (some
> of the) perl structure (and perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn already
> requires perl-DbIx-Class). What gives?
>
> diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.2
> --- perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn.spec  10 May 2009 06:54:10 -0000      1.1
> +++ perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn.spec  26 Jun 2009 09:12:21 -0000      1.2
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  Name:           perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn
>  Version:        0.00002
> -Release:        1%{?dist}
> +Release:        2%{?dist}
>  Summary:        Automatically encode columns
>  License:        GPL+ or Artistic
>  Group:          Development/Libraries
> @@ -55,10 +55,13 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>  %files
>  %defattr(-,root,root,-)
>  %doc Changes README
> -%{perl_vendorlib}/*
> +%{perl_vendorlib}/DBIx/Class/*
>  %{_mandir}/man3/*

This was clearly a duplicate ownership issue which spot dealt with
correctly. perl-DBIx-Class already owns
 %{perl_vendorlib}/DBIx/Class/
and thus there is no need for perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn to own the
directory since it requires perl-DBIx-Class (which owns the directory).

Ian and Ralf are absolutely correct here.  perl-* packages have for years operated under the convention and explicit guideline that anything we deliver under %{perl_vendorlib} or %{perl_vendorarch} must be owned by the package providing it.

The canonical example here generally involves differing vendorarch/lib dirs, as they're versioned by Perl. E.g. if perl-DBIx-Class was built under 5.10.0, it's going to put its bits under /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0.  In the meantime if we go to Perl 5.10.1 and build perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn under that level, it will use /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1 as its directory... leaving /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/DBIx/Class/ unowned.
 
...or, if XS (arch-specific) bits were added to perl-DBIx-Class (which isn't terribly unlikely), all of a sudden it would be using directories under /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi, not /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0...  Also hosing directory ownership.  (noarch/arch changes like this are rare, but hardly uncommon.)

Another, perhaps clearer way of saying this is:  perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn will require perl-DBIx-Class through the virtual perl provide of perl(DBIx::Class); yet requiring perl(DBIx::Class) does not guarantee that any particular directory under Perl lib paths (@INC) will be created and owned.

Perl requires are managed through the perl(*) set of virtual provides.  Depending on a certain perl(*) provide to own specific directories is risky at best, and a mess towards its worst.  The only sane, clean and consistent way to deal with this is for each perl-* package to own everything it provides.

                                           -Chris

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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia