Beta 4.50.4 released -- faster than 4.49

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Julian,

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:45 +0000, Julian Field wrote:
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> The critical lines are these:
> 
> On 5 Jan 2006, at 16:21, Ken A wrote:
> 	
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         perl(RPC::PlClient) >= 0.2000 is needed by perl- 
> > DBI-1.50-1.noarch
> >         perl(RPC::PlServer) >= 0.2001 is needed by perl- 
> > DBI-1.50-1.noarch
> >         perl(Win32::ODBC) is needed by perl-DBI-1.50-1.noarch
> 
> I don't understand why it thinks it needs these. My system hasn't got  
> them installed and didn't need them for DBI.
> 
<SNIP>

I had exactly the same issues building Perl modules for DefenderMX - it
is caused by the RPM find-requires script that searches for all the
dependencies for the RPM including the optional libraries too.

Personally I use the cpan2rpm script http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/
which you can tell to ignore requirements:

#   - DBI -
#   This spec file was automatically generated by cpan2rpm [ver: 2.028]
#   The following arguments were used:
#       '--packager=Steve Freegard <steve.freegard at fsl.com>'
'--distribution=Fort Systems - DefenderMX'
--make-maker=PREFIX=/opt/Fortress/utils --make-install=DESTDIR=
%{buildroot} --spec-only --no-prfx
'--define=_defaultdocdir /opt/Fortress/utils/doc' '--define=_prefix /'
--name=fsmg-perl-DBI --no-requires=perl(Win32::Registry)
--no-requires=perl(RPC::PlClient) --no-requires=perl(RPC::PlServer)
--no-requires=perl(Win32::ODBC)
--no-requires=perl(Apache) ../SOURCES/DBI-1.48.tar.gz

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Steve.

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