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Re: [TCLUG:20259] suidperl
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@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@webtrek.com> posting to the RedHat Announce list:
>
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 bugzilla@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@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@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
- References:
- suidperl
- From: Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>