trash our own brew of xmlrpc, that was all about supporting <nil/>

[plcapi.git] / plcapi.spec

diff --git a/plcapi.spec b/plcapi.spec
index 8846023..5a8ed46 100644 (file)
--- a/plcapi.spec
+++ b/plcapi.spec
@@ -52,21 +52,16 @@ Requires: memcached python-memcached
 ### avoid having yum complain about updates, as stuff is moving around
 # plc.d/api
 Conflicts: MyPLC <= 4.3
-# xmlrpc
-Requires: php-xmlrpc
-
-# We use psycopg2
-#
-# but we don't need to rebuild it as we depend on distro's packages - baris
-# BuildRequires: postgresql-devel
-
-### # Standard xmlrpc.so that ships with PHP does not marshal NULL
-### # for building the wsdl interface we used to require PyXML
-### # but this has gone with f20 so turning this off for now
-### BuildRequires: php-devel
-### #BuildRequires: python-simplejson
-### Obsoletes: php-xmlrpc
-### Provides: php-xmlrpc
+
+# standard xmlrpc.so that ships with PHP does not marshal NULL
+# prior to May 2017 we used to ship our own brew of xmlrpc but
+# that does not build anymore on f25
+# So bottom line is:
+# * don't use fedora's php-xmlrpc (no support for marshalling NULL)
+# * don't use our own that is way too old
+# * instead, thanks to Ciro we pull it from
+# https://github.com/gggeek/phpxmlrpc.git
+# Requires: php-xmlrpc
 
 # PostgreSQL and SOAPpy are necessary to run the API server, but not
 # plcsh. Since the only supported method of running the server is via