ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

I have just released new RPMs for 4a9.
You'll need to remove the old ones first, not just upgrade them.

There is now an install.sh script which will rebuild all the Perl module
RPMs from source, installing them as it goes.

I built the initial SRPMs on a 7.2 box, then tried installing them on a
clean 8.0 box I built for the purpose, and they went on fine. You do get
some warning messages as quite a few of the modules are now shipped as part
of Perl 5.8.0, but don't worry about that, it will just skip the ones whose
functionality is already installed.

Many thanks to Peter for the idea of shipping the SRPMs, it hadn't occurred
to me!

Jules.

P.S. I'm going to bed now, so that's it for the night.

At 21:24 06/10/2002, you wrote:
>Sorry, I thought the error had already been reported.
>
>package perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-14 (which is newer than
>perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-1) is already installed
>file /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Spec.pm from install of
>perl-File-Spec-0.82-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.6.1-34.99.6
>file /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Spec/VMS.pm from install of
>perl-File-Spec-0.82-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.6.1-34.99.6
>file /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Spec/Win32.pm from install of
>perl-File-Spec-0.82-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.6.1-34.99.6
>error: failed dependencies:
>         perl-File-Spec is needed by perl-File-Temp-0.12-1
>package perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-14 (which is newer than
>perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-1) is already installed
>package perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-2 (which is newer than
>perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-1) is already installed
>package perl-MailTools-1.50-1 is already installed
>error: failed dependencies:
>         perl-File-Spec is needed by perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl3.2
>error: failed dependencies:
>         perl-MIME-tools is needed by perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-1
>error: failed dependencies:
>         perl-File-Spec >= 0.82 is needed by mailscanner-4.00.0a9-3
>         perl-File-Temp >= 0.12 is needed by mailscanner-4.00.0a9-3
>         perl-MIME-tools >= 5.411 is needed by mailscanner-4.00.0a9-3
>
>
>
>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
>On 6/10/2002 at 9:06 PM Julian Field wrote:
>
> >At 20:31 06/10/2002, you wrote:
> >>I just tested the build 4 rpm on a fresh RH7.3 system with all current RH
> >>updates, and it croaked even using the install.sh due to problems with
> >>perl-File-Spec
> >
> >"croaked"? That's helpful...
> >
> >What did it say?
> >Even if it produced an error while installing perl-File-Spec due to it
> >already being installed or something like that, did it carry on?
> >In which case, what happened when you tried to start it up?
> >
> >Please remember, these are alpha RPMs...
> >--
> >Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> >jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> >Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ