SV: Thoughts about Perl and up2date in RH

[Julian Field]

At 16:29 30/10/2002, you wrote:
>Hmm, found this though it doesnt make me sure  :)
>perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.2
>Looks ok if I compare to your other posting regarding
>--snip--
>You don't want to get any 5.5xxx versions of MIME-tools, you must
>stick with 5.411 + 4 patches
>--snip--

Yep, that's the one. If you do
         rpm -qi perl-MIME-tools
it will tell you it was packaged by me.


> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Skickat: den 30 oktober 2002 16:17
> > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Ämne: Re: Thoughts about Perl and up2date in RH
> >
> >
> > 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)".
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ