Thoughts about Perl and up2date in RH

[Julian Field]

At 11:45 30/10/2002, you wrote:
>Hi
>This might be sligtly off but I just needed to find out.
>Did an upgrade last night to v4 and also added SA from rpm
>on my RH 7.3 computer at home. Had to install v4 first so SA
>didnt complain about missing Perl packages. Everything seems
>to run fine and still do but when I did up2date in RH, it upgraded
>some perl modules.
>
>My question is, since I havent figured out CPAN, whats the chance
>of breaking something important in perl by allow RH to upgrade
>my perl-packages?

You should be fine.
Keep an eye on MIME-tools though, if it upgrades that it might "upgrade" it
to one without all the security patches, which would be "A Bad Thing(tm)".
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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