From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:28:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)
Message-ID: <436548F3.1030507@michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <43652934.8000308@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The Subversion importer Perl script breaks RPM generation.  First of
> all, it introduces new module dependencies which don't exist in for
> example RHEL4.  The easiest way to deal with that is probably to fork
> off the subversion exporter into a separate package, but the really bad
> one is:
> 
> git-svnimport.perl:require v5.8.0; # for shell-safe open("-|",LIST)
> 
> ... which RPM thinks means that you need a Perl module called v5.8.0
> which doesn't, of course, exist.  This is arguably an rpmbuild bug, but
> it nevertheless breaks at the moment.

If you change that to the traditional statement of "require 5.008;",
does it fix things up?