>>>> What does the following show: >> >>>> >>>> rpm -q --requires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >>>> >>> >>> Oops, I meant: >>> >>> rpm -q --whatrequires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 >> >> no package requires perl-IO-Socket-INET6 > > Try rpm -q --whatrequires 'perl(IO::Socket::INET6)' - Perl dependencies > in RPM-land are rarely expressed in terms of the package names:
Yeah: spamassassin-3.3.1-2.el5 >> --> Running transaction check >> ---> Package perl-IO-Socket-INET6.noarch 0:2.51-2.fc6 set to be erased >> --> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Socket::INET6) for package: > spamassassin > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > For my own RPM-based systems, I keep my own .spec file around since even > the RPMForge package pulls in too many other things that I don't use. > It's just an older version of the RPMForge one (the one from SA v3.2.3), > lightly updated as necessary to build the current release without build > errors.