Question about perl-package?

[Julian Field]

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At 23:22 08/10/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Henrik Bro wrote:
>
> > My Red Hat say this...is it true?
> >
> >
> > The following Packages are obsoleted by newer packages:
> >
> > Name-Version-Release        obsoleted by        Name-Version-Release
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---
> > perl-MIME-Base64-3.03-1                         perl-5.8.0-88.7
>
>It *appears* that I have similar problems on two different RHEL 3 U3 boxes.
>up2date has failed overnight complaining about failed dependencies on
>perl-MIME-Base64.
>
>I will investigate further on Saturday.

Installing MIME::Base64 through an RPM or using CPAN installs the same
files in the same places. The RPM installation notices the clash of files
with perl-5.8.0, whereas of course CPAN does not. So I just need a way of
constructing the RPM so that it can install its files without the rpm
database knowing it's happened.

In this case RPM is a victim of its own success. I need to be able to
install these files without telling the rpm database what I've done, that's
the only way I can see out of this problem.

But why does it think perl-5.8.0 is newer than perl-MIME-Base64? Where is
it getting the dates from?
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