-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8261 2008-10-03 21:11:25 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl Product : Fedora 9 Version : 5.10.0 Release : 34.fc9 URL : http://www.perl.org/ Summary : The Perl programming language Description : Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.
Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Update Test::Simple and Archive::Tar, which should fix problems with versions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Sep 17 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-35.fc9 - remove Tar.pm from Archive-Extract - fix version of Test::Simple in spec - update Test::Simple - update Archive::Tar to 1.38 * Thu Aug 14 2008 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-34.fc9 - move libnet to the right directory, along Net/Config.pm * Wed Aug 6 2008 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-33.fc9 - Add compatibility paths to otherlibdirs (fixes 457771) * Wed Jul 30 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-32.fc9 - 457085 CGI.pm bug in exists() on tied param hash * Mon Jul 21 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-31.fc9 - 455933 update to CGI-3.38 - fix fuzz problems (patch6) - 217833 pos() function handle unicode characters correct * Wed Jul 2 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-30.fc9 - 453646 use -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV. Without fail some modules f.e. readline. * Fri Jun 27 2008 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-29.fc9 - add compatibility paths to @INC on 32bit archs (#452898), but do not explicitly mention the arch-specific subdir of it, perl adds it automatically * Thu Jun 26 2008 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-28 - add compatibility paths to @INC on 32bit archs * Tue Jun 24 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-27 - CVE-2008-2827 perl: insecure use of chmod in rmtree * Thu Jun 12 2008 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-26 - make config parameter list consistent for 32bit and 64bit platforms, add config option -Dinc_version_list=none (#448735) - use perl_archname consistently - set siteprefix to prefix/local * Wed Jun 11 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-25 - 447371 wrong access permission rt49003 * Mon May 26 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-24 - 448392 upstream fix for assertion * Thu May 22 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-23 - sparc64 breaks with the rpath hack patch applied * Mon May 19 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-22 - 447142 upgrade CGI to 3.37 * Sat May 17 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 4:5.10.0-21 - sparc64 fails two tests under mysterious circumstances. we need to get the rest of the tree moving, so we temporarily disable the tests on that arch. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #462590 - Broken provides: perl(Archive::Tar*) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462590 [ 2 ] Bug #462587 - RFE: update perl(Test::Simple) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462587 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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