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Date: 2002-11-30 03:22:48
From "Stefan Tibus "
Subject: Re: SMIT (was: Re: So... whaddya got?)

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:11:56 -0800, Steve Scotten wrote:

>Are you running 5.1?
Yes, and without problems so far...

>Really, the thing that bugs me is the overlap of packages that are
>installed with installp and those that are installed with RPM. For
>example, if I want to upgrade 
>  perl.rte                   5.5.3.0    C    Perl Version 5 Runtime
>to a newer level, I can get freeware.perl from bull (which won't
>satisfy the dependencies for perl.rte) or go to IBM for perl 5.6.1 as
>an RPM, which also won't satisfy dependencies. 
>...
>Now after all this griping, I'll probably find that the maintenance
>releases I have not yet installed will upgrade my perl and other
>things like that, and I'll feel really foolish! =^)
There's some truth to this...I read about an update of perl 
somewhere... I'll go and see where this was...

cu,
Stefan

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