Re: Cannot install git RPM

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Aug 10, 2005, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20050810194458.1F1F5353C12@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050810162307.GE8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

In message <20050810162307.GE8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> you 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.  Your choices are to grab the relevant

They are not only not part of a standard installation, but:

o I was not able to find any perl modules in the  whole  Fedora  Core
  distribution that satisfied these dependencies.

o Manually  installing  Email::Valid  and  Mail::Sendmail  (plus  the
  required  prerequisites)  from  CPAN  worked  find,  but  RPM still
  complains.

> packages, do an install with --nodeps (and know that

That's what I did.

> git-send-email-script will not work), make a subpackage for that script

But it will work, as the required Perl modules are installed.

My problem is that I cannot satisfy the dependencies in a way which gets visible to RPM. And this is where I feel this is a bug in Fedora Core. But probably I'm just too dumb.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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