strange rpm requirement: perl(a)

Question

I am packaging several parts of my company icinga installation as RPMs, to be used in the transaction from a central monitoring solution to a distributed one.

Along the way I have packaged the nagios plugins folder easily and I have discovered that newer versions of rpmbuild calculate requirements automatically using ldd.

Now my package has a huge list of unmet dependencies, mostly perl modules. Some of these requirements are cryptic or equivocal: I can't find anything about them in google or the repositories:

icinga.plugins-1.0-1.i686 has missing requires of perl(a)    
icinga.plugins-1.0-1.i686 has missing requires of perl(snmp)  #which module is this???
...

I guess I can find out most of them, but perl(a).

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can disable auto requirements at all, or manipulate the auto requirements mechanism to ignore specific requirements. Look here:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2005-August/msg00461.html