No, it's still 5.6.1. The above is a very obvious Fedora RPM issue.
Sorry for the confusion, this is Red Hat 8.0, not Fedora. 3.0 installs fine on Fedora.
I think 8.0 was the last RH distro not to use the new Perl object tokens in the RPM DB, so the error is probably because the stock Perl in that distro lacked the new token that the newer rpmbuild looks for.
Probably the least-surprise solution is to rebuild the Perl RPM from source using the later rpmbuild and bump the release to allow an "update". Of course, one could also update to a newer Perl at the same time, but that's always risky for the enterprise folks.
