Re: RPM vs. Perl scripts

[Derrick Schommer <schommer gmail com>]

Nevermind. :)

User-error!  Apparently there was a .cgi file in my html directory
which actually had a #!/usr/bin/perl#!/usr/bin/perl and since web
servers use the mime type or whatnot instead this line was not really
being used (so I never noticed the issue).  The neweset RPM detected
it.  I figured it out by running the rpm-dep checks manually in each
directory until I saw the odd depenancies.

Thanks anyway :)

Derrick


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:15:08 -0500, Derrick Schommer <schommer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've had continual struggles trying to get my RPM package to work with
> perl scripts/modules when dealing with "dependancies."
> 
> My current issue that I can't seem to find a work around for (because
> the functionality seems broken or my understanding of it is lacking)
> is that I have recently added a little perl script utility to one of
> my development packages.  It is a little perl script which has the
> initial first line of "#!/usr/bin/perl" like most perl scripts
> contain.
> 
> When I build a new release of my RPM I get a new dependancy I've never
> seen before:
> 
> Requires: /bin/bash /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl#!/usr/bin/perl ...
> 
> Now the first two seems right, and have been there for a good while
> (due to my package containing some customer perl modules, and some
> cgi's), but the new "/usr/bin/perl#!/usr/bin/perl" is causing me
> grief.  It started showing up after I added my new script to my RPM.
> 
> Now if I try to install this new RPM I get a failed dependancy because
> my target system doesn't have the package:
> "/usr/bin/perl#!/usr/bin/perl is needed by <my_rpm>"
> 
> Am I missing something?  Or is it illegal to put normal perl scripts
> in an RPM?  Even a method to omit just the depenancy checks on this
> specific file would be a work around for me right now...
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Derrick
>