Hi,
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:29:40PM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
either by requiring perl explicitly
right.
or simply relying on perl always being in the buildroot ...
Wrong.
As explained in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions_2 and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FullExceptionList you should rather BuildRequire perl in this situation.
... (which it is).
Just by a chance!
perl is brought to the root as a dependency of rpm-build, that contains perl scripts to search for automatic dependencies. Actually, I have a plan to replace those by an awk script or something, so that perl does not have to be installed to all mock buildroots.
Take care, ;-)
Stepan