Problem installing DBI solved

Richard Siddall richard.siddall at ELIRION.NET
Fri Jan 6 20:25:17 GMT 2006


Julian Field wrote:
> The /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req is far too keen to find Perl dependencies  
> where there are none.
> So I replace it with an "exit 0;" script and save the original, which  
> is replaced at the end of the script.
> It doesn't matter too much if you lose perl.req, it's pretty useless  
> anyway as it works very badly.
> 

Oh, yuck.

Julian, could you do something like:
	rpm --define='__perl_requires=/path/to/julians/script'
in install.sh, so you don't make any persistent changes to the
development environment?

Regards,

	Richard Siddall

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