strange RPM dependency in LogReport's perl-MIME-tools-5.411-7.noarch.rpm on Red Hat 7.2

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

I've downloaded RPMs from http://download.logreport.org/pub/rpm/redhat/7.3/RPMS.lire/ .

 joostvb at perlharbor:~% head -1 /etc/issue
 Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)

Hrmm...  Just lets try it...

 root at perlharbor:/usr/local/src/rpms# rpm -i lire-1.3-1.noarch.rpm                  
 error: failed dependencies:
        perl-MIME-tools is needed by lire-1.3-1

 root at perlharbor:/usr/local/src/rpms# rpm -i perl-MIME-tools-5.411-7.noarch.rpm
 error: failed dependencies:
        perl(MIME::Base64) >= 2.04 is needed by perl-MIME-tools-5.411-7

 root at perlharbor:/usr/local/src/rpms# rpm --info --query perl-MIME-Base64      
 Name        : perl-MIME-Base64             Relocations: (not relocateable)
 Version     : 2.12                              Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
 Release     : 6                             Build Date: Mon 23 Jul 2001 04:40:16 PM CEST
 Install date: Fri 24 May 2002 03:44:27 PM CEST      Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com
 Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-6.src.rpm
 Size        : 28641                            License: GPL or Artistic
 Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
 Summary     : Perl module for MIME encoding/decoding (base64 and quoted-printable)
 ....


( root at perlharbor:/usr/local/src/rpms# up2date perl-MIME-Base64
  None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. )

Is this a bug in the RPM dependency tracking?  Is there a known
workaround?

Furthermore, I foresee troubles installing lire-html on Red Hat Linux
7.2: docbook-style-xsl is not shipped by Red Hat for this platform.  Any
hints about this?  Should I build an RPM for this myself?  Would it be
useful to try to install a 7.3 RPM from Red Hat for this?

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal                                http://banach.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl                                  The Netherlands

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