Re: Strange dependency problem installing GIT 0.99.7

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Sean wrote:
> On Mon, September 19, 2005 12:46 am, Junio C Hamano said:
> 
>>Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> writes:
>>
>>
>>>So I installed String::ShellQuote from CPAN and tried again with the
>>>same result.  So I then rebuilt the rpm on my system and still got the
>>>same error message.  So I've installed the rpm using the --nodeps option
>>>but would like to test whether it is successfully finding
>>>String::ShellQuote.  Which command(s) would exercise this perl package?
>>
>>$ git grep ShellQuote
>>git-archimport.perl:42:use String::ShellQuote;
> 
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> You need to install ShellQuote with rpm rather than installing it directly
> from CPAN.  You can pick up a rpm version of ShellQuote from several
> places, here's one:  http://tinyurl.com/7p7ey

IMHO rpm shouldn't care how ShellQuote got there unless it (how it got 
there) is stated as an explicit dependency in the spec file (which it 
isn't).  So I still think this is a bug in rpm's (automatic) dependency 
mechanism that needs fixing.

Peter
PS I notice that perl isn't included in the explicit list of 
dependencies in the spec file even though other equally ubiquitous 
packages are.
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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