"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.

Its seems it wants a package named "rpmlib", not rpm. (I dunno what that
VersionedDependencies buisness is about...) Anyway, --nodeps seems to be
how to make it work. What rpmlib is I dunno, neither RH6.2 or pinstripe
have such a package...

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