[users] perl-PDF-API2

[Michael Mansour]

Hi,

> On Monday, December 03, 2007 2:13 PM +0100 Dries Verachtert 
> <dries at ulyssis.org> wrote:
> 
> > Rpm uses the perl.req script to search for used modules. It uses some
> > kind of  regular expression and it matches on the string 'use the' on
> > line 393. This  is in the middle of some pod documentation, so this
> > requirement should not be  added to the rpm. There are some possibilities
> > to fix such situations (there  might be other/better solutions besides
> > the following):
> 
> Some relevant bugzillas:
> 
>
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?version=&component=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&bug_status=CLOSED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=perl.req&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=>
> 
> Here's the latest one:
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198033>

Hmm.. so does this mean if I just manually download the perl-PDF-API2 RPM from
rpmforge and manually installed the RPM with --nodeps, then there will be no
issues?

At the moment I still get this on SL5:

# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge -y install perl-PDF-API2
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
sl-base                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:01
rpmforge                  100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
sl-security               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:01
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 783 kB    00:04
sl-base   : ################################################## 3163/3163
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.4 MB    00:06
rpmforge  : ################################################## 5540/5540
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 301 kB    00:02
sl-securit: ################################################## 852/852
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for perl-PDF-API2 to pack into transaction set.
perl-PDF-API2-0.68-1.el5. 100% |=========================|  51 kB    00:01
---> Package perl-PDF-API2.noarch 0:0.68-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: perl(the) for package: perl-PDF-API2
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(the) is needed by package perl-PDF-API2

Thanks.

Michael.