Problem installing DBI solved

[Julian Field]

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All sorted now. Works a treat.

Julian Field wrote:

> 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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