dependency problem with my (first) RPM

[Dario Faggioli]

Hello Everyone,

I created an (my first!) RPM of this software
http://www.xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/ but I'm having some issues
when trying to install it.

Before anyone ask, yes, the long term plan is to follow all the usual
step to get the package officially accepted in Fedora, but I'd like to
have it "working" before starting to do that. :-)

So, xen-tools is just a collection of perl scripts, but having the
package I'm making depend from perl is driving me nuts! :-O Spec file is
attached (I've run it through rpmlint, and I know it have some issues,
but still...) and here's what I get when I tr to install the result of
`rpmbuild -ba xen-tools.spec':

# yum install ../RPMS/noarch/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch.rpm 
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Examining ../RPMS/noarch/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch.rpm: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
Marking ../RPMS/noarch/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
...
---> Package xen-tools.noarch 0:4.3.1-1.fc18 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(any) for package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(any) for package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch (/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch)
           Requires: perl(any)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I googled for this quite a bit, but I don't seem to be able to find
anything explaining how to make that "Requires: perl(any)" go
away... :-(

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot and Regards,
Dario

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[Miro Hrončok]

Hi,
Dne 1.4.2013 10:17, Dario Faggioli napsal(a):
>  I googled for this quite a bit, but I don't seem to be able to
> find
>  anything explaining how to make that "Requires: perl(any)" go
>  away... :-( 
If you just want it to go away, try this: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering

But I would focus on why it happened. (No, I don't know that.)

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[Reindl Harald]

Am 01.04.2013 12:02, schrieb Miro Hrončok:
>  Dne 1.4.2013 10:17, Dario Faggioli napsal(a):
> > I googled for this quite a bit, but I don't seem to be able to find
> > anything explaining how to make that "Requires: perl(any)" go
> > away... :-(
>  If you just want it to go away, try this:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
>  
>  But I would focus on why it happened. (No, I don't know that.) 
BuildArch: noarch
Requires: perl (which is not noarch)

"Requires: /usr/bin/perl" or try to remove it completly
i would wonder if the perl base pakcage can be uninstalled

[Christopher Meng]

%define _binaries_in_noarch_packages_terminate_build   0  ?

[Dario Faggioli]

On mar, 2013-04-02 at 08:32 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote:
>  %define _binaries_in_noarch_packages_terminate_build   0  ?
>  
That didn't do anything... Perhaps because what I'm seeing is a `yum
install' issue, rather than a `rpmbuild -ba'  issue?

Thanks anyway,
Dario

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[Dario Faggioli]

On lun, 2013-04-01 at 12:14 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>  
>  Am 01.04.2013 12:02, schrieb Miro Hrončok:
>  > Dne 1.4.2013 10:17, Dario Faggioli napsal(a):
>  >> I googled for this quite a bit, but I don't seem to be able to find
>  >> anything explaining how to make that "Requires: perl(any)" go
>  >> away... :-(
>  > If you just want it to go away, try this:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
>  > 
>  > But I would focus on why it happened. (No, I don't know that.)
>  
>  BuildArch: noarch
>  Requires: perl (which is not noarch)
>   
Oh... I see. Sorry, didn't think about that! :-P

Actually, I gave it a try to a version of the spec file without the
"noarch", which produced an "fc18.x86_64" package, but got the same
result when trying to install it... 

>  "Requires: /usr/bin/perl" 
>  
That does not seem to change much, at the end o the output of `rpmbuild
-ba' I'm still seeing this:

Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(FileDigests) <=
4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl perl(Carp) perl(Digest::MD5)
perl(English) perl(Env) perl(File::Copy) perl(File::Path)
perl(File::Slurp) perl(File::Spec) perl(File::Temp) perl(Getopt::Long)
perl(Moose) perl(POSIX) perl(Pod::Usage) perl(Text::Template)
perl(Xen::Tools::Log) perl(any) perl(strict) perl(warnings)

i.e., "perl(any)" is still there, and that is still where trying to
install the package dies. :-(

>  r try to remove it completly
>  i would wonder if the perl base pakcage can be uninstalled
>   
Sorry, what do you mean by "try to remove it completely" ?

Thanks a lot for replying,
Dario

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[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:17:29 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:

>  Error: Package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
> (/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch)
>             Requires: perl(any)
>  
>  I googled for this quite a bit, but I don't seem to be able to find
>  anything explaining how to make that "Requires: perl(any)" go
>  away... :-(
>  
>  Any ideas? 
RPM's automatic Perl dependency generator isn't 100% and has found
something like "use any" in a Perl module or source file. You either
need to work around that by changing that text or filter it out with
the help of Requires filtering.

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[Miro Hrončok]

Dne 1.4.2013 12:42, Michael Schwendt napsal(a):
>  RPM's automatic Perl dependency generator isn't 100% and has
> found
>  something like "use any" in a Perl module or source file. You either
>  need to work around that by changing that text or filter it out with
>  the help of Requires filtering. 
Seems like this:

WARNING
-------

   You appear to have a missing vif-script, or network-script, in the
  Xen configuration file /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp.

   Please fix this and restart Xend, or your guests will not be able
  to use any networking! <<<< HERE !!!



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[Dario Faggioli]

On lun, 2013-04-01 at 13:19 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>  Dne 1.4.2013 12:42, Michael Schwendt napsal(a):
>  > RPM's automatic Perl dependency generator isn't 100% and has found
>  > something like "use any" in a Perl module or source file. You either
>  > need to work around that by changing that text or filter it out with
>  > the help of Requires filtering.
>  Seems like this:
>  
>  WARNING
>  -------
>  
>     You appear to have a missing vif-script, or network-script, in the
>    Xen configuration file /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp.
>  
>     Please fix this and restart Xend, or your guests will not be able
>    to use any networking! <<<< HERE !!!
>   
OMG! Thanks a lot (to both, Michael and Miro!)... Neither my perl nor my
knowledge of RPM would have allowed me to spot this, at least for the
next geologic era I guess!! :-P

I'll discuss about that with upstream and look into Requires filtering.

Thanks a ton again,
Dario

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[Mattia Verga]

Hi Dario,
In my opinion your first
'Requires: Perl'
is not needed, because you already applied the right way of require Perl 
with

Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo
$version))


You can take a look to specfiles of other Perl modules and take them as 
example (for example take a look to the source of Perl-Ace at 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=390648 )

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl

Bye
Mattia

Il 01/04/2013 10:17, Dario Faggioli ha scritto:
>  Hello Everyone,
>
>  I created an (my first!) RPM of this software
>  http://www.xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/ but I'm having some issues
>  when trying to install it.
>
>  Before anyone ask, yes, the long term plan is to follow all the usual
>  step to get the package officially accepted in Fedora, but I'd like to
>  have it "working" before starting to do that. :-)
>
>  So, xen-tools is just a collection of perl scripts, but having the
>  package I'm making depend from perl is driving me nuts! :-O Spec file is
>  attached (I've run it through rpmlint, and I know it have some issues,
>  but still...) and here's what I get when I tr to install the result of
>  `rpmbuild -ba xen-tools.spec':
>
>  # yum install ../RPMS/noarch/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch.rpm
>  Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>  Examining ../RPMS/noarch/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch.rpm:
> xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
>  Marking ../RPMS/noarch/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch.rpm to be installed
>  Resolving Dependencies
>  --> Running transaction check
>  ...
>  ---> Package xen-tools.noarch 0:4.3.1-1.fc18 will be installed
>  --> Processing Dependency: perl(any) for package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
>  --> Processing Dependency: perl(any) for package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch
>  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>  Error: Package: xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch (/xen-tools-4.3.1-1.fc18.noarch)
>              Requires: perl(any)
>    You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>    You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
>  I googled for this quite a bit, but I don't seem to be able to find
>  anything explaining how to make that "Requires: perl(any)" go
>  away... :-(
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  Thanks a lot and Regards,
>  Dario
>
>
>