Hi All,

In an attempt to put my money where my mouth is, I'm attempting to do some more QA and write up a streamlined getting started guide. I'm working on putting together a straightforward way to test buildrequires. I've patched mach so that it will attempt to install perl(*) buildrequires, and it more or less works.

However, mach rebuild (and apt-get) fails on the following command:

[erik@mises SPECS]$ sudo apt-get install 'perl(Digest::SHA1)' 'perl(Digest::Nilsimsa)' Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selecting perl-Digest-SHA1 for 'perl(Digest::SHA1)' Package perl(Digest::Nilsimsa) is a virtual package provided by: perl-Digest-Nilsimsa 0:0.06-0.fdr.4.1 You should explicitly select one to install. E: Package perl(Digest::Nilsimsa) has no installation candidate

Now. You'll notice perl(Digest::SHA1) resolves just fine. However apt thinks there are multiple perl(Digest::Nilsimsa) packages available, although it only lists one. Whats going on here? How can I resolve this? Obviously, I could replace all the buildrequires with explicit ones, but I've gotten the impression that is NOT the cool way to solve this problem.

I also tried to manually solve the problem using mach apt-get install perl-Digest-Nilsimsa mach rebuild ~/rpm/SRPMS/perl-Razor-Agent-2.36-0.fdr.6.src.rpm and it STILL tries to install the perl(Digest::Nilsimsa) package and fails. I mustn't be understanding something about mach in this case... what?

I don't see anything particularly wrong with the perl-Digest-Nilsimsa package:

[erik@mises SPECS]$ sudo apt-get install perl-Digest-Nilsimsa [erik@mises SPECS]$ rpm -qi --provides perl-Digest-Nilsimsa Name : perl-Digest-Nilsimsa Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.06 Vendor: Fedora Linux Release : 0.fdr.4.1 Build Date: Sun 18 Jan 2004 03:33:46 AM EST Install Date: Tue 02 Mar 2004 11:18:21 AM EST Build Host: bmaster.fedora.us Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: perl-Digest-Nilsimsa-0.06-0.fdr.4.1.src.rpm Size : 47837 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sun 18 Jan 2004 03:38:26 AM EST, Key ID 29d5ba248df56d05 Packager : Fedora Linux, http://fedora.us URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-Nilsimsa/ Summary : Perl interface to the Nilsima Algorithm Description : Perl interface to the Nilsima Algorithm. Nilsimsa.so perl(Digest::Nilsimsa) = 0.06 perl-Digest-Nilsimsa = 0:0.06-0.fdr.4.1

Help please! :)

Thanks

--erik