RedHat Perl updates

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Joshua Penix [mailto:jpenix at BINARYTRIBE.COM]
> Envoyé : Monday, October 13, 2003 8:00 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : RedHat Perl updates
> 
> 
> I just installed MailScanner on a fresh RedHat 9 box that had 
> been fully
> up2dated.  The default install didn't have certain Perl modules
> installed, such as perl-HTML-Parser, perl-HTML-Tagset and 
> perl-TimeDate,
> thus MailScanner's install script downloaded and built the appropriate
> RPMs for me.  That's quite fine, but now upon running up2date, RedHat
> sees the newly installed packages and reports that it has more current
> versions of those modules available.
> 
> Is it okay to let up2date go ahead and install RedHat's 
> versions?  They
> all appear to be the same major version as the ones MailScanner
> installed (3.26, 3.03 and 1.1301 respectively), it's just the package
> revision that differs (i.e. 3.26-2 from MailScanner versus 
> 3.26-17 from
> RedHat).
> 
> --Josh
> 

I have been updating with apt-get for a while without problem.  I suggest you try apt if you didn't suscribe to red hat network yet.  Better & free.