On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:46:32 +0000
Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:02:01 -0800
Chris Weyl <cweyl(a)alumni.drew.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I do think that filtering these provides is the right thing to do
> > but I'm not sure about the approach. Whilst it should be fine for
> > a regular perl module package, it could cause problems for
> > mixed-language packages where there are other valid provides that
> > should be included but are not found by the perl provides script.
> > An alternative approach for such cases would be, e.g.
> >
> > # don't provide the private XS.so lib
> > %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> > %global provfind /bin/sh -c "%__find_provides | grep -v
> > '^XS[.]so'" %global __find_provides %provfind
> >
>
> Yeah. I was using as a simple case the filtering needed in
> perl-Readonly-XS... Others will be different, e.g. perl-Imager
> requires a bunch filtered:
>
> perl-Imager ==> CountColor.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> DynTest.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> Flines.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> ICO.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> Imager.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> Mandelbrot.so()(64bit)
> perl-Imager ==> SGI.so()(64bit)
>
> The following snippet just filters any .so files under
> %perl_vendorarch from being run through %__find_provides:
>
> # don't "provide" private Perl libs
> %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> %global provfind /bin/sh -c "grep -v '%perl_vendorarch.*\\.so$' |
> %__find_provides"
> %global __find_provides %provfind
>
> Looking at just the packages installed on my system, I see 208
> '*perl*' packages providing shared libs; for 432 .so's.
>
>
http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/impacted_packages
>
http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/private_libs
I like the look of that one, seems suitable as an addition to the
arch-specific perl package template perhaps?
One thing I just noticed about this approach is that it causes the
dependency on rtld(GNU_HASH) to get dropped too. Don't know why but
possibly a side-effect of turning off the internal dependency generator.
Paul.