i found redhat rawhide rpms for perl-5.6 on filewatcher.org.
ex: ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/3/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
Pete Lancashire wrote:
>
> Yes I tried Rawhide, I checked at least on the two or
> three rpm sites. Perl is still the same as 6.2's.
>
> I posted a little in frustration since part of
> going with a 'packaged' version of *nix, espically
> RedHat was in the past RedHat was usually one to
> update packages quite frequently.
>
> Sure I could use tarballs, I do on my three BSD
> boxes, oh well.. just a though since in the past
> four years, RedHat as done very well from me.
>
> Once you have all tarballs whats left with the
> reason to go with a packaged *nix ?
>
> Guess will see how may dependencies there is to
> removing redhat's perl from 6.2.
>
> Sorry for venting my frustraton, but something
> as common as perl ? ...
>
> -pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Roger Dooley
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: Lack of updates of common packages
>
> have you tried rawhide? or you could just get the tarballs ;)
>
> Pete Lancashire wrote:
> >
> > I just left rufus.w3.org and noticed the updates to 6.2 was quite "thin".
> >
> > Almost all the packages I use, Perl-tk, perl, etc. have all been updated
> > by the other distributions that use RPM, but not by Redhat.
> >
> > Is is just me or is RedHat falling behind ?
> >
> > I still would like to know what the best way to update to Perl 5.6 is :(
> >
> > -pete
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