PaulHowarth/Blog/2015-04-27

Monday 27th April 2015

Fedora Project

• Updated GeoIP (1.6.5) in Rawhide and EPEL-5 such that builds targeting EL-5 (and only EL-5) have a dependency on the package GeoIP-GeoLite-data rather than the virtual GeoIP-data, to work around the presence of the GeoIP-data-20090201-1.el5.centos package in the CentOS 5 Extras repository, which EL-5's yum prefers to any GeoIP-GeoLite-data package, even if arch-specific and with a epoch in the virtual provide for GeoIP-data (CentOS Bug#8488)

• Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data (2015.04) in Rawhide, EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 to add symlinks for the "City" databases to be where upstream expects them (thanks to nucleo for the suggestion in Bug#1194798)

• Updated perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser to 1.5104 in Rawhide:

  • Add File::Path dependency for testing (CPAN RT#103482)

  • Don't install private Module::Install extension (CPAN RT#103482)

  • Clarify licensing terms

  • Move verbose testing to a private module, and implement it in a way that doesn't require editing the Makefile after it is generated

  • Require File::Slurp instead of including it, to avoid potential problems like this:

  • http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/86a0145a-e52b-11e4-a1d1-8536eb4f9f07

  • Improve the ability of the test suite to be run in parallel
  • Fix Windows test incompatibilities, such as:

  • http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/12187014-af8d-1014-92d8-fdf72a825c07

  • http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/12187014-af8d-1014-92d8-fdf72a825c07

Local Packages

• Updated GeoIP as per the Fedora version

• Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-B-Utils to 0.26:

  • Fix tests for perl 5.21.7 (change to nulled COPs) (CPAN RT#100508)

• Updated perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser to 1.5104 as per the Fedora version, adding a patch to work around a test issue on old Red Hat/Fedora perls (CPAN RT#103835)