[SOLVED] CentOS is NOT supported

[quanah]

Originally Posted by hughesjr

and on that system, what is:

rpm -q perl

On the RHEL4 system:

[root@qa07 ~]# rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2

And on the CentOS4 system:

[root@zimbra-061 ~]# rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2

--Quanah

[hughesjr]

OK ... I have the RHEL version of perl and the CentOS version extracted and the files:

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/Scalar/Util.pm

and

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/List/Util.pm

are identical in each.

[mmorse]

Please see: To our CentOS users

[hughesjr]

mmorse:

Thanks and to jholder and quanah as well.

One source of a new perl is the Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL-4.

RHWAS does have a perl-5.8.8 available in it. CentOS does also have a perl-5.8.8 available in our CentOSPlus repository that is a rebuild of the RHWAS source code.
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quanah:

I did a test in rhel-4.6 and centos-4.6 (w/o any zimba installed) and a very minimal install of perl and I had no issues with that /tmp/system.pl script.

If there is something that is different, I will be glad to work with you to figure out why, let me know.

[quanah]

Great, thanks.

I believe that any current issues have been isolated down to perl being upgraded. In the future, if we get any reports of issues we could use your help with, I'll be sure to ping you.

--Quanah

[jdell]

So, for CentOS'ers, looks like we need to uninstall/remove packages from the CentOS Plus yum repository to get perl back from 5.8.8 to perl 5.8.5. Anybody done that? Care to share steps to remove CentOS Plus?

I guess the other option would be to keep CentOS Plus repo, and just downgrade perl and dependent RPM's, then exclude them in the CentOS Plus config in /etc/yum.repos.d/

I'm still running 4.5.10, and will be waiting, but would like to hear from early adopters. Anybody? :-)

[hughesjr]

for the record, the other parts of CentOSPlus are built against the new perl-5.8.8, so the mod-perl and other things from there might require that version of perl.

There is a chance that the NEW [zimbra-perl-path]/Scalar/Util.pm module (provided by zimba) is not need in the new 5.8.8 perl.

Or maybe putting a copy of the old (from CentOS) /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/List/Util.pm in the same path as the [zimbra-perl-path]/Scalar/Util.pm by zimba might do it.

If the free version of Zimbra also has this issue, I would be glad to install on top of the CentosPlus perl and see if I can figure out a fix. I'll even put it in a bugs.centos.org entry. SO does the free version also have this problem?

[Klug]

Originally Posted by hughesjr

One source of a new perl is the Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL-4.

There is at least another one, see below.

Originally Posted by hughesjr

I did a test in rhel-4.6 and centos-4.6 (w/o any zimba installed) and a very minimal install of perl and I had no issues with that /tmp/system.pl script.

I setup a server (Dell PE 2950) with rhel-4 on monday morning (minimal install, French default language) and upgraded it right away with up2date (to "last" rhel-4.6).

up2date did install perl-5.8.8-2.el4s1 (that was on monday 13:31 CET) while we do not have the Web Application Stack.

Then I "upgraded" it to RHCS but that was _after_ the initial up2date. We also install the Qlogic adapters and tools after the initial up2date upgrade (just checked once again /var/log/up2date).

Could it be the selection of another language than US-English as default?

[hughesjr]

I would check with Red Hat and RHN (I assume you really mean RHEL and not CentOS ), but the version of perl that you quote:

perl-5.8.8-2.el4s1

is part of the RHWAS and not the main RHEL-4.

I know of no way it would show up on your system if RHWAS is not enabled. That package is also in CentOSPlus if you are using CentOS.

See who the vendor of that package is with this command:

rpm -qi perl

The Second line should tell you the vendor, something like this:

Name        : perl                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 5.8.5                        Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 36.el4_5.2                   Build Date: Wed 07 Nov 2007 03:53:51 PM CST

[hughesjr]

I just checked on RHN and at least for the english version of the channel, the newest package is:

perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.i386.rpm