From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:48:48 GMT
Subject: Re: make rpm
Message-ID: <625fc13d0701211548j5f41d4eck49db2726e9c194c2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ep0c9d$tph$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 1/21/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]
>
> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> > I just tried 'make rpm' and it died with:
> >
> > |rpmbuild -ta git-1.5.0.rc2.tar.gz
> > |error: Failed build dependencies:
> > |        perl(Error) is needed by git-1.5.0.rc2-1.i386
> >
> > Of course I have perl installed.  But what is that "perl(Error)" about?
>
> You don't have Error.pm perl module (in perl-Error package in Fedora Core).
> Git distributes it's own copy, but I guess rpm target requires to have it
> installed rather than provide it ourself.

If you really have your own copy, you can use Provides: perl(Error) or
something similar.

josh