On 11/08/2011 12:44 AM, Nelson Manuel Marques wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thanks, I had found meanwhile the information I was looking for in this wiki page[1]. I'll fix this tomorrow morning.
NM
[1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Perl_Provides_and_Requires_Filt...
The filter mentioned there won't have any effect as the provide you are trying to remove is generated by rpm's internal dependency generator, not the perl-specific provides script.
I would suggest you ignore the rpmlint warning; virtually all arch-specific perl packages in EPEL 4 and 5 produce this warning; later releases of Fedora (and EPEL-6) include better filtering mechanisms that can handle this more comfortably but it's not a big deal.
Regarding perl-Data-Dumper, you may be disappointed with the results of packaging it as the Data::Dumper module is bundled with the main perl package in a directory right at the start of @INC in RHEL 4 and 5, so even if you build your own version and install it, you'll end up using the original (bundled) one unless you fiddle with @INC in any applications that use it.
Paul.