 | | | perl upgrade problems | perl upgrade problems 2005-07-28 - By Brian Long
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On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 06:26 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Madhavprasad Pai wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > This is because Red Hat invests time in providing a version of Perl that we
> > can support over the lifetime of the RHEL product that you have bought. If
> > your versions are not what Red Hat has supplied/updated, then you may run
> > into support issues with Red Hat. So, keep the Perl version supplied by Red
> > Hat, and update it *only* through RHN. And run your application through the
> > Perl that you have compiled in /opt.
>
> While I agree with your advice to build and install a private copy of Perl
> to /opt, I have to take exception to the statement "This is because Red
> Hat invests time in providing a version of Perl that we can support over
> the lifetime of the RHEL product that you have bought."
>
> The version of Perl, 5.8.0, in RHEL3 is horribly, irreperably, _broken_
> for many reasons. It is a joke that it is supported 'over the lifetime of
> the RHEL product' because it is essentially a trap for unwary people that
> cannot be safely used in production for any but the most trivial of uses.
> RH _should_ have ripped it out and replaced with a newer stable release.
Perl 5.8.0 might have been broken from perl.org, but the Perl included
in RHEL is not straight from opensource. Red Hat applies security and
bug fixes (backported from later releases). If you know of something
specifically broken in perl 5.8.0 in RHEL, please open a bugzilla. Red
Hat should back-port a fix for any serious bugs and release it in an
errata.
/Brian/
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