You can report problems on the CentOS bug tracker at: http://bugs.centos.org/
Umm, as I said, I couldn't sign up to file a bug report. Nope, still broken.
APPLICATION ERROR #2800 Invalid form security token. Did you submit the form twice by accident?
If the problem is reproducible in RHEL as well, you might as well report it directly at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
I don't have an RHEL to test I use Debian at home, but thanks for the link, since it is the same source according to Johnny below.
I feel like it's pointless to ask why don't distributions upgrade within the minor revision number of the stable 2.2 series anyway. 2.2.3 is certainly not as "stable" as 2.2.11 and the API is supposed to be the same. Oh right the "big picture." :-(
2.2.3 in CentOS/RHEL is not the same as 2.2.3 upstream... it's only the base release after which patches are applied. The name 2.2.3 is kept because potentially not all the upstream patches that went to 2.2.11 will go into CentOS/RHEL's 2.2.3, in theory only security updates are applied inside a minor OS release and RedHat might decide to skip some of the patches introduced between 2.2.3 and 2.2.11 if they believe they are not relevant to their product.
Yeah it doesn't make sense to me why it's an advantage for RedHat to selectively backport patches instead of keeping up what the developers believe is a stable API for all callers. It's the same corporate cargo cult they were in when they made the mod_perl1 "compatibility" interface for Apache2... just made life harder for everyone in the end, if I'd wanted to use 1.3 handler API I would have installed 1.3... but that is ancient history.
Second: from that link it seems that you have installed Perl modules directly from CPAN. Is that true? If you did and your system broke, well, you got to keep the pieces... It's known that CPAN modules and RPM modules do not play together well and will tend to break in upgrades. I suggest you install a CentOS 5.3 machine from scratch and try to reproduce the problem there. If it still happens, then report it to CentOS's bug tracker and/or to the mailing list.
Yes I removed all of perl, made sure all libs were gone and started from scratch.
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, nate wrote:
I don't think I'm able to help on this one but am curious how much of the components your working with are built from outside sources? I get the impression that your using quite a few modules directly from CPAN, are you using sqlite and mod_perl stuff from outside CentOS as well?
I use httpd, httpd-devel, sqlite, sqlite-devel, mod_perl, mod_perl-devel, apr etc. from CentOS.
DBD::SQLite is not available in yum so I make it with CPAN.
libapreq2 (Apache2::Cookie/Apache2::Request) is not available in yum and does not run the tests right with the CPAN installer as root so I make it from source.
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Well ... here is what I can tell you:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/?sc_cid=3093
They do roll in bug fixes. I know it can be frustrating (it is for me to and I build this stuff) ...
WRT the httpd package ... if you look at the RHEL and CentOS httpd SRPMs you will see that the change in the spec file is cosmetic and only controls CentOS being displayed instead of Red Hat as required by their trademark restrictions.
Excellent info I will swim upstream thank you.
Mark