Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de writes:
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It doesn't work.
The epochs on dependencies on "perl" inside of sub-packages are wrong.
E.g.: # rpm -q --requires -p perl-CPAN-1.76_02-16.i386.rpm ... perl = 0:5.8.8-16 ...
# rpm -q --provides -p perl-5.8.8-16.i386.rpm ... perl = 4:5.8.8-16 ...
This causes all kind of dependency breakages in yum.
AFAIS, you seem to have missed the %{epoch} related Requires having been contained in my latest *.spec.
Scratch this sentence - I was wrong.
You added Requires: perl = %{epoch}:%{perl_version}-%{release} to subpackages' %package.
This breaks if a subpackage uses a different Epoch as the main packages, for example this: ... %package Test-Harness Summary: Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics Group: Development/Languages Epoch: 0 Version: 2.56 Requires: perl-devel Requires: perl = %{epoch}:%{perl_version}-%{release} ...
At the time, rpm processes the %{epoch} inside of the "Requires: perl =...", %{epoch} contains the "0" from the "Epoch: 0" line above and doesn't contain the global epoch anymore.
A brute-force approach to work-around this would be to add a global %define perl_epoch 4 at the beginning of the *.spec and to replace all references to the main perl package's Epoch (%{epoch}) with %{perl_epoch}
The patch below implements this approach.
Good catch Ralf, thanks - I've applied that patch and I'll try out a local build.
Thanks,
-RN