From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:32:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Cannot install git RPM
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:
> * 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