Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205455 Summary: RFE: Versioned Obsoletes for built-in perl modules Product: Fedora Core Version: fc5 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: normal Component: perl AssignedTo: rnorwood(a)redhat.com ReportedBy: nj(a)leverton.org QAContact: dkl(a)redhat.com CC: fedora-perl-devel-list(a)redhat.com Description of problem: The perl rpm Obsoletes a number of modules which are now included in base perl 5.8.8. However some of these modules do get updated fairly regularly in between perl releases. As a system builder I prefer to update them by building an RPM with cpanflute for the specific module e.g. perl-Time-HiRes, so that I get simple and repeatable installations. But because of the Obsoletes in the perl RPM I have to remember which are in base perl and choose non-standard module names to get round it. If the Obsoletes tag could be made versioned, against the actual module version included in perl, it would simplify the task of keeping systems up to date between Fedora releases. It would also make it it much easier when Fedora perl is updated because $PACKAGE_MANAGER could be trusted not to remove newer modules. At the time of writing the tags for perl 5.8.8 would be: Obsoletes: perl-Digest-MD5 <= 2.36 Obsoletes: perl-MIME-Base64 <= 3.07 Obsoletes: perl-libnet <= 1.19 Obsoletes: perl-Storable <= 2.15 Obsoletes: perl-CGI <= 3.15 Obsoletes: perl-CPAN <= 1.7602 Obsoletes: perl-DB_File <= 1.814 Obsoletes: perl-Filter <= 1.32 Obsoletes: perl-Filter-Simple <= 0.82 Obsoletes: perl-Time-HiRes <= 1.86 Obsoletes: perl-Test-Builder-Tester <= 1.02 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.8.8-8 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.