Re: perl and multilib considerations?

[Florian La Roche <laroche redhat com>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:12:03PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Requires: perl >= 2:5.8.2
> spamassassin.spec contains this, which is problematic because it must 
> change every time perl is upgraded.  The resulting SRPM needs to be 
> modified if you rebuild it on older distributions too.  Not a totally 
> serious problem, but annoying and consumes developer time on a 
> reoccuring basis.


You don't have to change it if perl is updated, this is giving
only a minimal perl version number.


> Requires: %(perl -le 'use Config; print $Config{archlibexp}')
> Does this spec line fail in any cases you can think of?

Shudder. Is xchat that dependent on the current perl or is
that only a savety measure to guard against future perl
changes?

As Jeff Johnson is pointing out on a regular basis: automation
is much better than cleanup of things that get faster out of
date than you are able to get them right.

greetings,

Florian La Roche