Final decision on perl-devel?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:20 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Has the final decision on whether perl-devel will split from perl
> > during F7 been made?
> >
> > I hope that a final decision can be made and announced widely, because
> > currently this issue is causing confusion and doubt among maintainers.
> 
> I think we are going with perl/perl-devel split.  Spot, Rafael, and
> others are working on getting things into a state where we can build
> another release.  There don't seem to be any showstoppers at this
> point.  I'll make an announcement when we know more.

I noticed a further problems:

On FC6 with a locally build perl*-14.1 (including my most recent
patches) in a local repo in addition to the FC's core+extras,

yum install 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'
fails:

# rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'
no package provides perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)

# yum install 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'
...
Nothing to do

# repoquery --whatprovides 'perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)'
perl-4:5.8.8-10.i386
perl-devel-4:5.8.8-14.1.i386

# yum install perl-devel
...
Installed: perl-devel.i386 4:5.8.8-14.1


Seems to me as if yum can't properly handle this split.

May-be, it can't handle resolving a property (perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker))
being provided by different packages perl rsp. perl-devel).


Ralf