[TriLUG] Perl modules and RPMs

[Mike Broome]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:53:22AM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:17, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:57, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > > 
> > > So what I'm wondering is what does the Makefile look like on Mandrake so
> > > that it works correctly?
> > 
> > Looking at the Mandrake 9 perl rpm yields this little tidbit:
> > 
> > Patch12:
> > perl-5.8.0-RC2-MakeMaker--have-PREFIX-appear-in-INSTALLs-variables-like-it-used-to-be.patch.bz2
> > 
> > So, it appears that Mandrake 9 patches MakeMaker to fix this
> > "new behavior".  I wonder why it was changed?  
> 
> If anyone is following this thread besides Tanner and myself, we
> discussed this further on IRC; I opened a bug at Red Hat's bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78053
> 
> The patch from Mandrake 9 can be applied pretty easily to the perl SRPM
> from Red Hat 8, which allows cpan2rpm to work nicely.  Let me know if
> you'd like a copy of the modified SRPM.
> 
> --Jeremy

Hi, Jeremy,

I'm following this thread (since I asked the question that started the
discussion :).  I'm interested in the modified SRPM.  If you can send it
(or a pointer to where I could grab it) that'd be great.

A quick question about SRPMs ...  when an RPM has patches that have been
applied to it -- like patch 12 of the Mandrake 9 RPM -- are those
patches accessible as discrete patches in the SRPM?  I.e. would I be
able to easily grab the SRPM and pull out just that one patch to look at
or apply somewhere else?

Thanks,
Mike

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Mike Broome
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