perl-libwww-perl oddity

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:04:22AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> I have multiple RH7.3 servers that are kept updated as expected.  Today,
> while doing a box-by-box comparison, I noticed that one box had an older
> version of /usr/bin/GET which is "owned" by libwww-perl (rpm -qf
> /usr/bin/GET)
> 
> The older file (v1.39) from box A is dated 14-Aug-2002 and is 14363
> bytes.  The one on box B (v1.40) is dated 27-Jul-2004 and is 14360
> bytes.  BOTH boxes report the file is owned by perl-libwww-perl-5.63-9.

It sounds like someone has frobbed that file without paying attention to
the fact that it is RPM-managed. Maybe someone has been careless with
CPAN.pm (as recently as yesterday judging by the modification time you
state).

There have been no Red Hat or Fedora Legacy updates to the package you
mention, so this isn't a packaging issue.

Your statements are also inconsistent from what I'm observing on my
boxes. Redhat 7.3 shipped with version 1.40 which has the following
properties:

-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        14360 Mar 30  2002 /usr/bin/GET
8e2c784307f467a2ae8bb8a4cb7f8b61  /usr/bin/GET

So it seems like you have got mixed up somewhere.

Dominic.