[SSI-devel] Re: Strange perl mod dep in openssi-tools RPM generated on Mar 01. Problem located and quick-fixed. Need a permanent fix.

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Good diagnosis, Kishore. This seems to be an rpmbuild bug. It probably 
just scans Perl code for the regexp '^\s*use\s\(\S+\)', and didn't 
notice that the use in this case was quoted.

I think we can easily work around this bug, although someone can feel 
free to submit the bug to the RPM project.

Brian


SAMPATHKUMAR, KISHORE KANIYAR wrote:
> As part of the automated daily build done in India, corresponding
> to the openssi-tools RPM built on Mar 01, 2004, the following were
> the perl "dependencies":
> 
> [root@lpr1 i386]# rpm -q -R -p ./openssi-tools-1.0.0-7.i386.rpm.bug | grep perl
> /usr/bin/perl
> perl(Clustertab)
> perl(Exporter)
> perl(FindBin)
> perl(Getopt::Long)
> perl(Getopt::Std)
> perl(Net::Ping)
> perl(Socket)
> perl(lib)
> perl(ssi_arch)
> perl(ssi_distro)
> perl(ssi_mgmt)
> perl(ssi_utils)
> perl(strict)
> perl(the)
> 
> Please note the strange perl module dependency listed as the last
> item above!
> 
> I checked on all the "use" keywords in all the perl modules in SSI
> to ensure that there was no bogus "use the" module called out by
> oversight. There weren't any.
> 
> However, I found out that the above dependency was generated due to
> the following in openssi-tools-1.0.0/openssi-tools/sysadmin/ssi_mgmt.pm:
> 
> sub help_bootprot {
>         print "
> Select (P)XE or (E)therboot as the network boot protocol for
> this node. PXE is an Intel standard for network booting, and
> many professional grade NICs have a PXE implementation pre-
> installed on them. You can probably enable PXE with your BIOS
> configuration tool. If you do not have a NIC with PXE, you can
> use the open-source project Etherboot, which lets you generate  <----
> a floppy or ROM image for a variety of different NICs.
> ";
> }
> 
> There is a line above that "starts" with "use" (I have pointed
> at that with an arrow). That seemed to have caused the generation of
> perl module dependency:
> perl(the)
> 
> I changed that line to NOT start with "use" and it fixes the generation
> of this spurious dependency.
> 
> Whether this a bug in perl or RPM or whether there is some other aspect
> that causes this, I do not know. Meanwhile, can someone look into this?
> 
> Regards,
> - Kishore