rpm AutoRequires/AutoProvides and dsos not in linker path, do we care ?

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Thu Jun 18 04:17:27 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:

> Chris Adams wrote:
> > It has happened with perl modules already.  mrtg has a private copy of
> > the perl SNMP_Session, SNMP_util, and BER modules (all from
> > SNMP_Session)
>
> That's the real problem, apps are not supposed to ship private copies of
> system libs in the first place, it needs to be fixed to use the system
> libraries.
>

There are two problems here, one fixed: 1) mrtg should look at using the
perl modules provided by perl-SNMP_Session, and 2) mrtg must not provide
perl dependency info where the Perl modules are outside the system Perl
library paths (that is, @INC).

                                     -Chris
-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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