Gabe Turner (officer) wrote: > > I'm sure you all got the security advisory about suidperl in RedHat. Well, > when trying to freshen the perl package with the new one, I get > > [root at xxx rh6x-updates]# rpm -Fvh perl-5.00503-11.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by > perl-5.00503-11 > > Has anyone successfully updated this package? The current rpm version on > rh6.2 is 3.0.4-0.48, so why does this package want a much older version? I > never use redhat except here at work and know nothing about rpms. Any > advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Gabe > Seems kinds dumb of RH not to have tested this, eh? But, according to Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> posting to the RedHat Announce list: > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 bugzilla at redhat.com wrote: > > > Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2: > > > > i386: > > ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/mailx-8.1.1-16.i386.rpm > > ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/perl-5.00503-11.i386.rpm > > On a RH 6.2 Intel box the perl rpm gives a dependency error - > > [root at billy /root]# rpm -Uvh perl-5.00503-11.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by perl-5.00503-11 > > I continued with a - > > [root at billy /root]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps perl-5.00503-11.i386.rpm > > and it installs, OC. The version of rpm on my system is rpm-3.0.4-0.48, > which I believe is the stock 6.2 rpm. Hope this helps'idly, -Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org