On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:05:22PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:27, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > > I seem to recall that the perl5.8.1 that comes with Red Hat is not the same > > as the official release of perl5.8.1. Anyone know where I can find out > > more information about this? > > Well, for starters, you might want to narrow down what you mean by Red > Hat (RHL, RHEL, Fedora, etc.); but no matter what you're running, you > can always use the magic of RPM to find out what you want:
In this specific case, it will be RHEL. > Red Hat never modifies the base source for a package, they just add > patches to the SRPM which are applied when the RPM is built. There is > also a changelog at the end of the file that details what was done to > this package. What I seem to remember hearing is that the perl5.8.1 that Red Hat distributes is actually different from the official perl5.8.1. My understanding is that because 5.8.1 was not ready when Red Hat needed it, they took 5.8.0, added a bunch of the available patches, and packaged it as perl5.8.1. p5p subsequently released the real 5.8.1 with additional patches. I'm hoping for more information about this, even if it's just, "No, you're wrong, nothing like that ever happened." :) Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
