Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > It seems that a package is now added to perl in Centos 5.3 that was not > there before. > > So a dependency on perl-MIME-Base64 will fail because that package now > seems to colide with perl itself. (SIGHHHH) > > How can I change my spec file to list the requirement only for > Centos/RHEL 5.x where x < 3? hmm. strange enough: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) # rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(MIME::Base64)' perl-5.8.8-15.el5_2.1 maybe the conditional requirement is not necessary. try a: Require: perl(MIME::Base64) -- best regards, markus