Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 61289
5.6.1 update breaks other packages
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:40:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 Description of problem: if certaion packages are not updated perl 5.6.1 will break these packages Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.upgrade perl 5.6.1 2. DONT upgrade mod_perl 3. restart apache 4. apache does not work Actual Results: if you have apache configured with mod_perl then mod_perl will not work as it wil look for file in the old 5.6.0 directory not the 5.6.1. There should be some indication that if you are installing perl 5.6.1 and you have mod_perl then it should warr a user. If they do not have mod_perl then it should install as normal. Else the message that I got about upgrading to perl should have included that info. Additional info: Workaround is just to upgrade mod_perl when upgrading to perl 5.6.1
There's not much choice; you have to upgrade mod_perl when you upgrade perl. They were errata'd together, so this should make sense. Not much we can do from a packaging perspective.