Description of problem: Due to a change in perl syntax for Perl 5.14 and onwards, the use of qw(...) in specific contexts is now disallowed. This generates lots of messages of the form: Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/sbin/psad line 4264. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): psad-2.1.7-2.fc15.x86_64 perl-5.14.2-191.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% of time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "psad --help" or any other psad options. 2. 3. Actual results: Numerous messages about deprecated feature. Expected results: No deprecated messages Additional info: Reading some of the perl list this only occurs in statements of the form: for my $var qw(...) { ... } and is fixed by the addition of "()", i.e. for my $var (qw(...)) { ... }
This has been fixed in upstream e013ca6230a6210ac6e405da08df370fb4818831. It might be included in the upcoming psad-3.0 release.
psad-2.1.7-5.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/psad-2.1.7-5.fc16
Package psad-2.1.7-5.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing psad-2.1.7-5.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-1625/psad-2.1.7-5.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
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