Michael,

Did you look at the src.rpm to verify that this line was missing.  If it 
is indeed missing then I think it should be bugzilla'ed .

-connie sieh

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Michael Mansour wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> After installing perl-LDAP, the other dependency packages were installed:
>>
>> Jun 20 23:42:32 Installed: perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09-1.2.1.noarch
>> Jun 20 23:42:32 Installed: perl-XML-SAX-0.14-5.noarch
>> Jun 20 23:42:33 Installed: 1:perl-LDAP-0.33-3.fc6.noarch
>>
>> Since then, one of my perl packages is doing strange things, and
>> generating an error when run with:
>>
>> could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX
>>
>> Checking the package:
>>
>> # rpm -ql perl-XML-SAX |grep ParserDetails
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
>>
>> but the file doesn't actually exist on the filesystem:
>>
>> # ll /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
>> ls: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini: No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> I've un-installed and re-installed, same problem. The RPM DB says
>> it's there when in fatc it's not.
>
> I found this:
>
> http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/
>
> which in this section:
>
> 3.18.	"could not find ParserDetails.ini"
>
> Explains the following:
>
> "
> If you are packaging XML::SAX in an alternative distribution format (such as
> RPM), your post-install script should check if ParserDetails.ini exists and if
> it doesn't, run this command:
>
> perl -MXML::SAX -e "XML::SAX->add_parser(q(XML::SAX::PurePerl))->save_parsers()"
>
>
> Don't unconditionally run this command, or users who re-install XML::SAX may
> find that any fast SAX parser they have installed will be replaced as the
> default by the pure-Perl parser.
> "
>
> So this tells us that the post-install script in the RPM doesn't actually work
> right?
>
> I ran that perl command above and the ParserDetail.ini file was then created
> and the problem went away.
>
> Should the issue with this RPM package be raised in bugzilla?
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.
>
>> I'm using:
>>
>> Scientific Linux SL release 5.3 (Boron)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael.
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