Need discussion, Re: Latest contrib perl

Michael Mansour mic at npgx.com.au
Tue Dec 27 21:43:52 UTC 2005


Hi John,

> Michael Mansour wrote:
> > The perl versions I'm currently using on FC1 are from that directory:
> > 
> > # rpm -q perl perl-suidperl
> > perl-5.8.3-18.1.legacy
> > perl-suidperl-5.8.3-18.1.legacy
> 
> I built these versions for FC1; however, they are actually older 
> than the -17.3.legacy versions.  I didn't realize at the time that 
> FC2 already had a -18 version.  You should install the -17.3.legacy 
> versions for the latest FC1 update.  RPM will require that you give 
> it the --oldpackage option because of the version numbering.  I 
> guess we could bump the epoch but it would really be preferable if 
> we could avoid that. John

Where do I pickup the -17.3.legacy versions from? looking here:

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/contrib/perl/

I only see the perl-5.8.3-17.3.legacy.src.rpm file, but I need both the perl
binary rpm and the perl-suidperl binary rpm.

Michael.




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