shouldn't this be perl-base >= in pld? $ rpm -ql apache-devel|xargs grep 5.004 /usr/sbin/apxs:require 5.004; $ rpm -q apache-devel --requires /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl apr-util-devel >= 1:1.2 libtool perl >= 0:5.004 perl(strict) perl-base rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 -- glen