Am 11.11.2014 um 20:41 schrieb Niamh Holding:
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7:20:36 PM, you wrote:

A> Update your ancient Centos version to Centos 5.11
That's scary... given the server is in a data centre 250 miles away!

you should subscribe to the CentOS list

it's multiple times explained there that there is *no support* fort older releases and especially not for update specific packages without update the rest of the system

"perl-5.8.8-43.el5_11.x86_64" is part of 5.11
this is completly untested and unsupported < CentOS 5.11

CentOS is a LTS distribution and you are expected to *always* do a *full* yum upgrade - you have chosen a LTS distribution to avoid ABI/API changes and so you should trust your distributor (in fact RHEL as upstream) to know *why* they rollout updates of specific packages and that they don't without a good reason (critical and/or security relevants bugfixes)

again: with update specific packages from 5.11 to < 5.11 systems you are *completly* o at your own

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