Jason,
The latest upstream perl 5.8.8 Release Candidate 1 RPMs have been built for Fedora Core 5 / Rawhide and are available for testing from :
http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/perl/FC-5/5.8.8-0_RC1/
It would be most helpful if those of you with FC-5 systems could please try them out and let me know of any issues .
I have detected a new problem: we need to obsolete Fedora Extra's perl-Test-Builder-Tester package as this module has become a perl 5.8.8 core module.
Fedora Extras: Test::Builder::Tester v1.01 as a standalone module Perl 5.8.8 : Test::Builder::Tester v1.02 as a core module
perl 5.8.8 specfile patch: ---------- --- perl.spec.revb 2006-01-21 03:06:21.000000000 +0000 +++ perl.spec 2006-01-31 17:07:46.000000000 +0000 @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ Obsoletes: perl-Filter Obsoletes: perl-Filter-Simple Obsoletes: perl-Time-HiRes +Obsoletes: perl-Test-Builder-Tester
%define __perl_requires %{SOURCE11}
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Regards, jpo