Worth noting that my perl version on RHEL 3.0 is 5.8.0 (with a pile o' patches -- makes sense). Haven't checked out RHEL 4 yet, but I would assume that they are running a more recent version since the Fedora Core 3 box I am typing this from uses perl 5.8.5.
Oh, and the real way to answer your question is, "what Aaron said." Getting access to the RHEL SRPMs can be a bit tricky if you don't have a RHN account, so would recommend you pull the SRPM from a site like CentOS <www.centos.org> (RHEL clone less RH trademarks, etc.). --Larry On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:15 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
