Re: Cannot install git RPM

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Aug 10, 2005, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20050810163202.GA11131@mars.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050810162307.GE8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:

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> * Wolfgang Denk (wd@denx.de) wrote:
> > It's then the "perl(Email::Valid)" and "perl(Mail::Sendmail)"  depen-
> > dencies  which  cause  problems.  I  installed  all perl packages and
> > modules I was able to find in the standard FC places,  but  this  did
> > not solve the problem. Maybe this is actually a bug in Fedora Core ?
> 
> No, you probably missed the earlier thread on this.  It's not a bug,
> those are real dependencies which rpm automagically discovers (along
> with things like shared library dependencies).  The issue is the
> git-send-email-script uses Mail/Sendmail.pm and Email/Valid.pm which
> aren't part of standard install.

Not knowing perl at all I wonder if some more widespread used packages can replace the above two? I recall having trouble locating them myself when I first tried Greg's send-a-lot-of-mails script.

Sam