Today's rawhide perl (perl-5.6.1-34.99.5) contains /usr/bin/suidperl. It doesn't obsolete or conflict with perl-suidperl (perl-suidperl-5.6.1-28.99.4). This makes it uninstallable via automated methods.
Chip, is this the way you want to package it going forward, or was this accidental?
yeah splitting suidperl out is the eventual goal, but right now we can't; the central perl package needs to have a Require: on it so that anaconda pulls it in when it does an upgrade. this ends up making it non-optional. the split out cpan modules do the same, but they can at least be updated independent of the core perl package, which suidperl can't do. I can split it back out without the Requires: in the main perl package, but it may break anaconda upgrades from older releases.
Anaconda does not require a 'requires' on it to pull it in on upgrade... as long as it contains files that were in the old package, it will find it.
ahh, right, the anaconda problem is with the packages that contain only files that move (the perl modules themselves). I'd forgotten than it looks for files that are removed and tries to satisfy those dependencies. I'll build a new perl with suid split back out, then.
latest build in rawhide now has the suidperl package split
Indeed 5.6.1-34.99.6 has the perl-suidperl stuff split out from the core perl package. Closing out.