CentOS - Mar 2008 - recompiled mod_perl insists on old perl dependency

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?

Is anyone here is aware of another way to get a fixed version of perl
for CentOS 5?

Thanks,

--Amos

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

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