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

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