Re: recompiled mod_perl insists on old perl dependency

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx> 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

-- 
Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be@xxxxxxxxx - 0479 / 88 11 83

Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the
"microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed.
(Linus Torvalds)
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