On Nov 10, 2007 5:09 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I run SL5 on all my machines except for my offsite virtual server,
> which is running a Xen-ified version of CentOS-5 provided by the
> hosting service.  At 0400GMT on November 8, the server yum update
> process downloaded   perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.i386.rpm  , which was
> probably generated by The Upstream Vendor.  Yum/RPM proceeded to
> scribble over the 84841 byte file:
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/List/Util/Util.so
>
> ... with a truncated 36168 byte version that breaks Kwiki and Spoon,pm
> among other things.  A CPAN "force install" of Scalar::Util fixed it.

I checked the size of the above file _before_ updating perl on a
CentOS-5 i386 system and it was 36168.

[root@nova3 Util]# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36168 Jan 10  2007 Util.so
[root@nova3 Util]# rpm -qf Util.so
perl-5.8.8-10.i386

So, is this also a truncated version?  How do you check this?

> Although this list is focused on Scientific Linux and not TUV
> Enterprise 5 or CentOS 5, Perl users here may suffer the same fate
> I did if/when this file gets updated for us.  Something to watch
> out for.
>
> Who should I contact at TUV and CentOS about this?
>
> Keith

You can reach CentOS developers through the centos-devel mailing list:

http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel

Or the centos ML for general discussion:

http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Akemi