Bug 33377

Summary:	rpm 4.20.0 beta: no more perl dependency generators
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Base system maintainers <basesystem>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	rpm-4.19.92-1.mga10.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jani Välimaa 2024-07-07 18:48:47 CEST

When building a package with rpm 4.20.0 beta from core/backports_testing there are errors in mock build.log:

error: Couldn't exec /usr/lib/rpm/perl.prov: No such file or directory
error: Couldn't exec /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req: No such file or directory

Rpm upstream removed perl dependency generators from the repo in 4.20.0 alpha:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/8eac3304261f229d380246cc773e88fac3c22282

However both removed files are still referenced in rpm-build's /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/perllib.attr and /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/perl.attr.

There is a new upstream available for the removed generators:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/perl-rpm-packaging

Should we pkg the removed files, or patch upstream fileattrs to use our patched perl dep generators coming from rpm-setup?

Comment 1 katnatek 2024-07-07 20:02:59 CEST

I think we must package the files in https://github.com/rpm-software-management/perl-rpm-packaging because the upstream reason to not include in 'core' rpm is 

'These are far better maintained by the Perl community'

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2024-07-08 20:56:23 CEST

Assigning to Basesystem maintainers

Assignee: bugsquad => basesystem

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2024-07-16 10:13:00 CEST

Added perl.{prov,req} from 'new' upstream to rpm-mageia-setup-2.80-3.mga10 in core/backports_testing where rpm-4.19.92-1.mga10 also lives.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED