perl and multilib considerations?
Florian La Roche
laroche at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 10:35:14 UTC 2004
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is much better than cleanup of things that get faster out of
date than you are able to get them right.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
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