Re: Extending AutoRequires for mod_perl, etc.

[diego bowen <diegobowen yahoo com>]

Using the "--nodeps" at install time allows you to bypass deependencies for perl libs that you may already have via bundled rpms....so for example:

/bin/rpm --nodeps -Uv foo.rpm

Richard Siddall <cobalt elirion net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm packaging up a Perl application that uses mod_perl and HTML::Mason 
> and was wondering if anyone could point me at some information on 
> extending rpm's AutoRequires as I'd like to automatically pull Perl 
> dependencies from at least the HTML::Mason handler file. RPM's standard 
> AutoRequires ignores that file as it has a .pl extension.
>
> I've found some stuff on the Fedora Project's web site
>  on overriding the 
> PerlRequires mechanism to filter out unwanted results 
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl), and assume I can 
> override the whole of AutoRequires similarly. Before I start 
> reverse-engineering how AutoRequires works, I thought I would check to 
> see if anyone has done this before and documented how to do it. (A 
> google search came up empty.)
>
> I'm not happy with hand-maintaining as large a set of dependencies as 
> this application's HTML::Mason handler has.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Siddall
>
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