Problem installing DBI solved

[Julian Field]

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Good idea, I see your point now.
Unfortunately, I can't quite see what to put in the /tmp/MSrpmrc file. I 
have tried
%__perl_requires /bin/true
but that doesn't appear to work.
I'll carry on digging.

Richard Siddall wrote:

>Julian Field wrote:
>  
>
>>Don't see quite what you mean. What I need to do is kill perl.req, I
>>don't see what I can do apart from put it back afterwards.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Well, first off, I meant rpmbuild, not rpm.
>
>If I understand rpmbuild correctly, it calls perl.req because that's the
>program specified in the __perl_requires macro.  Do an
>
>	rpmbuild --showrc
>
>and look for __perl_requires.
>
>If you redefine the macro successfully then the standard perl.req
>shouldn't be called.  You can get rpmbuild to call your replacement
>script instead, without making any changes to perl.req.
>
>I was just suggesting trying to redefine the macro on the command line.
> I don't know if that would work.  You could also try redefining it in
>the .spec file or in an rcfile you pass via the --rcfile command line
>switch.
>
>Does that make more sense?
>
>Regards,
>
>	Richard Siddall
>
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