[CentOS] recompiled mod_perl insists on old perl dependency
Tim Verhoeven
tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 09:17:40 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In order to overcome a known performance bug in perl-5.8.8-10 in
> centos 5 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=196836) I
> downloaded the perl package from fedora 8
> (http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/source/SRPMS/perl-5.8.8-30.fc8.src.rpm)
> and mod_perl (http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/source/SRPMS/mod_perl-2.0.3-14.src.rpm)
> and compiled them on an x86_64 machine following instructions from
> http://sial.org/howto/rpm/.
>
> The perl-5.8.8-30 installed fine but when I try to install the new
> mod_perl it insists on installing perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.i386:
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> =============================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
> mod_perl x86_64 2.0.3-14 threatmetrix 5.5 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> perl i386 4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 updates 12 M
>
> Going ahead with this complains about conflicts with the installed
> perl-5.8.8-30.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
Recompile the mod_perl package with after you installed the new perl.
It looks like the mod_perl was build against the base CentOS perl
version and not the one you build.
> Is anyone here is aware of another way to get a fixed version of perl
> for CentOS 5?
You need to get upstream to fix it. Report this bug in our and theirs
bug reportingtools (bugs.centos.org and bugzilla.redhat.com)
Regards,
Tim
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