#49888 Auto-provides / requires for private perl modules should be filtered
Closed: wontfix 4 years ago by mreynolds. Opened 5 years ago by mreynolds.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Fedora): Bug 1607633

389-ds-base installs a number of perl modules to a private location:

[adamw@id ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib64/dirsrv/perl
total 264
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  4394 Jun 21 10:10 DialogManager.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  7962 Jun 21 10:10 Dialog.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 54470 Jun 21 10:10 DSCreate.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  7143 Jun 21 10:10 DSDialogs.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 44895 Jun 21 10:10 DSMigration.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  4813 Jun 21 10:10 DSUpdateDialogs.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18734 Jun 21 10:10 DSUpdate.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 57185 Jun 21 10:10 DSUtil.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11662 Jun 21 10:10 FileConn.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  7642 Jun 21 10:10 Inf.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11848 Jun 21 10:10 Migration.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  3530 Jun 21 10:10 Resource.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  7163 Jun 21 10:10 SetupDialogs.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1876 Jun 21 10:10 SetupLog.pm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  7051 Jun 21 10:10 Setup.pm

the 389-ds-base package has auto-generated Provides for all these modules:

[adamw@id ~]$ rpm -q --provides 389-ds-base | grep perl
perl(DSCreate)
perl(DSDialogs)
perl(DSMigration)
perl(DSUpdate)
perl(DSUpdateDialogs)
perl(DSUtil)
perl(Dialog)
perl(DialogManager)
perl(DialogYesNo)
perl(FileConn)
perl(Inf)
perl(Migration)
perl(Resource)
perl(Setup)
perl(SetupDialogs)
perl(SetupLog)

(note, some/all of these scripts have been moved to 389-ds-base-legacy-tools in
F28 updates-testing / Rawhide - the bug is still valid, just obviously as
applied to that binary package).

per the perl packaging guidelines -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#Perl
- these automatic Provides should probably be filtered out. This case is
directly comparable to the Pidgin example given:

"On a x86_64 machine, the pidgin-libnotify provides
pidgin-libnotify.so()(64bit) which it shouldn't as this library is not inside
the paths searched by the system for libraries. It's a private, not global,
"provides" and as such must not be exposed globally by RPM."

Note that there are also some automatic Requires generated for these modules -
those too should be filtered out, and any dependencies between binary packages
handled manually instead.

Especially as some of these Provides have quite generic names - there is
already a distribution called Setup in cpan, for instance - they could actually
be 'dangerous'. We don't want something that depends on a known perl module
called Setup, for instance, getting 389-ds-base (or 389-ds-base-legacy-tools)
installed instead of perl-Setup or whatever the 'normal' package is called.

Metadata Update from @mreynolds:
- Custom field rhbz adjusted to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1607633

5 years ago

Metadata Update from @mreynolds:
- Issue assigned to mreynolds

5 years ago

Metadata Update from @mreynolds:
- Custom field component adjusted to None
- Custom field origin adjusted to None
- Custom field reviewstatus adjusted to review
- Custom field type adjusted to None
- Custom field version adjusted to None
- Issue set to the milestone: 1.4.0 (was: 0.0 NEEDS_TRIAGE)

5 years ago

Metadata Update from @vashirov:
- Custom field reviewstatus adjusted to ack (was: review)

5 years ago

Metadata Update from @mreynolds:
- Issue close_status updated to: fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

5 years ago

This doesn't seem to be fully resolved, at least not in F29.

Also I notice all these Provides for 389-ds-base which seem bogus:

libacctpolicy-plugin.so()(64bit)
libacctusability-plugin.so()(64bit)
libacl-plugin.so()(64bit)
libaddn-plugin.so()(64bit)
libattr-unique-plugin.so()(64bit)
libautomember-plugin.so()(64bit)
libback-ldbm.so()(64bit)
libbitwise-plugin.so()(64bit)
libchainingdb-plugin.so()(64bit)
libcollation-plugin.so()(64bit)
libcontentsync-plugin.so()(64bit)
libcos-plugin.so()(64bit)
libderef-plugin.so()(64bit)
libdistrib-plugin.so()(64bit)
libdna-plugin.so()(64bit)
libhttp-client-plugin.so()(64bit)
liblinkedattrs-plugin.so()(64bit)
libmanagedentries-plugin.so()(64bit)
libmemberof-plugin.so()(64bit)
libpam-passthru-plugin.so()(64bit)
libpassthru-plugin.so()(64bit)
libpbe-plugin.so()(64bit)
libposix-winsync-plugin.so()(64bit)
libpwdstorage-plugin.so()(64bit)
libreferint-plugin.so()(64bit)
libreplication-plugin.so()(64bit)
libretrocl-plugin.so()(64bit)
libroles-plugin.so()(64bit)
librootdn-access-plugin.so()(64bit)
libschemareload-plugin.so()(64bit)
libstatechange-plugin.so()(64bit)
libsyntax-plugin.so()(64bit)
libusn-plugin.so()(64bit)
libviews-plugin.so()(64bit)
libwhoami-plugin.so()(64bit)

those are all plugins of some kind which are not in a directory that's on the system linker path, AFAIK; they should not be listed as package Provides...

Metadata Update from @vashirov:
- Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)

4 years ago

Console and legacy pacakges are going away, closing....

Metadata Update from @mreynolds:
- Issue close_status updated to: wontfix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

4 years ago

389-ds-base is moving from Pagure to Github. This means that new issues and pull requests
will be accepted only in 389-ds-base's github repository.

This issue has been cloned to Github and is available here:
- https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/2947

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Thank you for understanding. We apologize for all inconvenience.

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