Not As Clever As I Thought I Was

[Alexander Apprich]

Dave Cross wrote:
> I thought I was being pretty clever earlier this week. Turns out I
> wasn't and this might serve as a cautionary tale for anyone else
> considering such cleverness.
> 
> Most of the work I do is Perl development and it bothered me slightly
> that the version of Perl available for FC2 is two minor versions
> behind the current release (5.8.3 vs 5.8.5). Poking around on the
> Fedora download server over the weekend I found a 5.8.5 rpm in
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/
> 
> So I downloaded it and installed it. Everything seemed to work fine
> for a couple of days.
> 
> Then, earlier today, I needed to restart Apache because I'd changed
> some configuration stuff. But it wouldn't restart. There was some
> binary version incompatibility in DynaLoader.pm. "Aha!", I thought, "I
> just need to update mod_perl as well". I did this, and mod_perl-devel
> as well for good measure. That didn't solve the problem. So I looked
> at upgrading the various apr-* rpms as well. At that point I got into
> dependency hell as one of these rpms needed a new version of openldap
> and that was going to affect a large number of other rpms on the
> system.
> 
> So I backed everything out and went back to the original versions of
> everything. It all works again now.
> 
> But it raises a couple of questions in my mind.
> 
> 1/ The perl-5.8.5 rpm should probably have complained that it wouldn't
> work with my existing mod_perl rpm. Is there a dependency missing
> there.
> 
> 2/ Why isn't there a Perl 5.8.5 rpm that works with the FC2 release?

Don't have much of an answer for you, but is there a reason not using
ActiveState's ActivePerl?

http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Linux/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-i686-linux.tar.gz

Havn't tried it myself on Linux (I develop with Perl on Windows), but
maybe it's worth a try...

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave...
> 

Alex
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