From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: It is pretty common knowledge that Perl 5.6.0 is not very stable when it comes to eval's. For example the HTML::Mason template engine doesn't like 5.6.0 very much. When will there be a RPM errata released to upgrade 7.x to Perl 5.6.1?? This is important to me. Is it safe to just use the 5.6.1 rpm from RawHide?
It is safe to use Rawhide's Perl, but you will need to edit the spec file (search it for "rawhide"). If you don't, you will get a perl that is not binary compatible with your installed modules. For an equally unsupported approach, though probably maintaining binary compatibility, you can get RPMs from: http://people.redhat.com/cturner/perl/ They should work, but there are no guarantees.
If by editing the SPEC you mean changing the %define build_8x 1 to 0 then I did that already. If not then please advise what changes I need to make. Thank you.
Oh and also, I don't use the binary rpm perl modules. I tend to use CPAN for obtaining perl modules. And I'll probably rebuild things like ImageMagick (which has a perl interface) etc from SRPMs also.