 | | | perl 5.8.1 or later for rhel 3 | perl 5.8.1 or later for rhel 3 2007-01-28 - By Michael Schwendt
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:46:10 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On 1/27/2007 6:01 PM, Alois Treindl wrote:
> > Alois Treindl wrote:
> >> RHEL 3 has perl-5 (See http://erl-5.ora-code.com).8.0 but I have some application which refuses to
> >> start with perl version < 5.8.1
> >>
> >> Does onyone know of perl rpms for rhel 3 which allow me to update
> >> easily to this version (or later)?
> >
> > solved it myself: took the perl rpm from Fedora 2.
> > Needed 'nodeps' and 'force' to install but seems to do its job.
> ^^^^^^ ^^^^^
>
> This is almost always a bad idea...
Some admins shoot themselves into the feet with these options.
While --nodeps may really be necessary to ignore dependencies and upgrade
a package without any bad consequences (because some dependencies are not
future-proof and too strict), --force is short for "--replacepkgs
--replacefiles --oldpackage". The --replacefiles option is particularly
nasty and can cause bad trouble. Why? From the manual:
--replacefiles
Install the packages even if they replace files from other,
already installed, packages.
This will show up in "rpm -Va". But finding out where and what it breaks,
is left as an exercise.
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