FS#75457 - [cowsay] many cows depend on Acme::Cow
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Arch Linux
Opened by Emanuele Torre (emanuele6) - Saturday, 30 July 2022, 10:56 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Saturday, 30 July 2022, 21:48 GMT
Opened by Emanuele Torre (emanuele6) - Saturday, 30 July 2022, 10:56 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Saturday, 30 July 2022, 21:48 GMT
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Description:
Some of the cows installed with this package depend on the Acme::Cow package which is not installed as a dependency for this package (also I don't think it is available on the arch linux repositories). This causes problems for the community/cowfortune package. That installs a `cowfortune' program that runs randomly either cowsay(1) or cowthink(1), with a random cow from `/usr/share/cows', with a random fortune message. If the randomly picked cow depends on Acme::Cow, instead of seeing a "cow" saying/thinking a fortune message, you will see this error message from cowthink/cowsay: bash-5.1$ cowfortune cowthink: Can't locate Acme/Cow.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Acme::Cow module) (@INC contains: /home/emanuele6/perl5/lib/perl5 /home/emanuele6/perl5/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.36/site_perl /usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.36/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl) at /usr/share/cows/DragonAndCow.pm line 3, <STDIN> line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/cows/DragonAndCow.pm line 3, <STDIN> line 2. Additional info: * community/cowsay package version: 3.04-2 * community/cowfortune package version: 0.1.2-7 * number of cow files that don't depend on Acme::Cow: bash-5.1$ grep -vlZr Acme::Cow | gawk -vRS='\0' 'END{print NR}' 54 * cows that depend on Acme::Cow: bash-5.1$ grep -lr Acme::Cow | nl 1 Example.pm 2 Frogs.pm 3 TextBalloon.pm 4 Stegosaurus.pm 5 MechAndCow.pm 6 DragonAndCow.pm 7 TuxStab.pm * percentage of cows that depend on Acme::Cow: ~11.5% Steps to reproduce: 1. First method: * Run `echo hello | cowsay -f Frogs.pm` 2. Second method: * Install `cowfortune` * Run it a couple of times, you are likely to hit the error Fix: The best and preferred fix is: * package Acme::Cow (if it is not already packaged) * make the package that provides Acme::Cow a dependency of this package An alternative temporary/worse solution could be to add something like this to the package file for community/cowsay: grep -lZr 'Acme::Cow' /usr/share/cows/ | xargs -0r rm -- To delete all the cow files that contain Acme::Cow. Cheers emanuele6 |
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Closed by Toolybird (Toolybird)
Saturday, 30 July 2022, 21:48 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing: FS#68682
Saturday, 30 July 2022, 21:48 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:
there was another task for this issue because I was looking at the
cowfortune reports.