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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