From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031219 Description of problem: Upgrading the Perl interpreter on Red Hat 9 using the Fedora Core 1 RPM breaks a number of packages that depend on Perl, for example vim-X11, vim-enhanced and xchat. The programs complained they couldn't find libperl.so. [root@vindaloo root]# ldd /usr/bin/vim libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4002b000) libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x4006a000) libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x40070000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40075000) libperl.so => not found [...] The library used to be located at: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so but after the upgrade it is at: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so Adding the directory where libperl.so is located to /etc/ld.so.conf and rerunning ldconfig fixed the problem, but I would expect that this would have run during the upgrade of the package in the first place... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.8.1-92 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install Red Hat 9 2. grab Fedora Perl RPM 3. rpm -Uvh <fedora-perl-rpm> Actual Results: packages stopped working Additional info:
I would not install fc1-rpms on a rh9. I suggest to close this bug as "notabug".
Agreed, this is definitely not a bug. If you want the Perl from Fedora Core 1, just upgrade the whole system to FC1. You could also try rebuilding Perl from source RPM, and you may need to rebuild other packages that depend on a specific Perl version. But it's not Red Hat's problem.