-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-0031 2011-01-06 16:34:05 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : perl-Dist-CheckConflicts Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 0.02 Release : 2.el5 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-CheckConflicts/ Summary : Declare version conflicts for your dist Description : One shortcoming of the CPAN clients that currently exist is that they have no way of specifying conflicting downstream dependencies of modules. This module attempts to work around this issue by allowing you to specify conflicting versions of modules separately, and deal with them after the module is done installing.

For instance, say you have a module Foo, and some other module Bar uses Foo. If Foo were to change its API in a non-backwards-compatible way, this would cause Bar to break until it is updated to use the new API. Foo can't just depend on the fixed version of Bar, because this will cause a circular dependency (because Bar is already depending on Foo), and this doesn't express intent properly anyway - Foo doesn't use Bar at all. The ideal solution would be for there to be a way to specify conflicting versions of modules in a way that would let CPAN clients update conflicting modules automatically after an existing module is upgraded, but until that happens, this module will allow users to do this manually.

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[ 1 ] Bug #667403 - Review Request: perl-Dist-CheckConflicts - Declare version conflicts for your dist https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667403 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Dist-CheckConflicts' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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