Question about perl-package?

[Martynas Brijunas]

could it be the case that the newer versions of perl incorporate the
functionality of mime-base64 and a separate package is no longer required?

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From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
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Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Question about perl-package?


> 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
> > >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > > ---
> > > 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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