[Rpm-maint] [Patch 06/19] Revert to using perl.req and .prov

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Fri Feb 16 18:01:14 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:57 +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 08:43 -0500, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > As I said this is meant as a merge of mostly functional changes, and I
> > > want to look at the underlying methodologies individually, as such major
> > > reworking getOutputFrom was beyond the scope of this patchset. My
> > > prefered approach to fixing perl.req/prov was mentioned in an earlier
> > > mail and I'd like to revisit how file class requires and provides are
> > > handled generically.
> > >
James

> > I'd be very interested in getting this script to work.  With the
> > packages sets I've used the "Turner" script after some mods I made
> > seemed to produce the correct results and was way more readable (read
> > maintable) than the old scripts.
> 
> I think the main thing we might need to do is fix the script to work
> with both files in @ARGV or files coming from <stdin>. I don't imagine
> that's too much work.  I just tried the same build with adding a quick
> hack. The previous failing build now succeeds. I'm pretty sure this
> isn't the nicest way to do the processing but perhaps you can use that
> as a guide to how to fix properly:
> 

Any chance you've checked to see if this looks sane, or is there a
better way of dealing with using either ARGV or stdin in perl

Cheers.

Paul




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