Question about perl-package?

[Julian Field]

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No, as otherwise install.sh would find the module was up to date and
wouldn't attempt to install anything as it wasn't needed.

At 13:03 09/10/2004, you wrote:
>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>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>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
> > > >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--
> > > > ---
> > > > 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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