ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

At 06:12 09/10/2002, you wrote:
>perl-MIME-tools >=5.411 is needed by mailscanner-4.00.0a10-1
>perl-MailTools >=1.46 is needed by mailscanner-4.00.0a10-1
>perl-Convert-TNEF is needed by mailscanner-4.00.0a10-1

I don't want to remove all the pre-requisites as that is half the point of
having a package manager such as RPM.
If they are installed, but aren't controlled by RPM, then you will need to
use the "--nodeps" switch to rpm.

I'm thinking of producing a completely non-rpm distribution for all the
dependencies, rather like the way I did the V3 rpm distribution, in that it
would compile and install each of the perl modules without using rpm. But I
don't want to create another distribution if I can avoid it, as it creates
lots of extra work for me.

I could make the install.sh script ask you if you are running an RPM-based
system or not. If not, then I install all the modules with --nodeps and
hope everything works out okay. It's far from ideal but might work.

Any thoughts?


>Peter
>
>
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>On 8/10/2002 at 5:12 PM Julian Field wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >--
> >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