ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

At 05:14 08/10/2002, you wrote:
>This is pretty close now, except install.sh tried to use the
>perl-MIME-tools for perl 5.8 on my RH7.3 box which has perl 5.6 installed.

Fixed.

> >From what I see, you have both versions of perl-MIME-tools there, but not a
>mechanism to decide which one to use.
>
>I edited install.sh to use the other one and that fixed it nicely.

Hopefully 4a10-1 will solve this issue.


>Peter
>
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>On 6/10/2002 at 11:23 PM Julian Field wrote:
>
> >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
> >>
> >>
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> >>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
> >
> >--
> >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