MS on a RHEL rebuild, perl modules problem?

[Julian Field]

At 08:08 20/07/2004, you wrote:
>I am using a RedHat Enterprise 3 rebuild (TaoLinux) and installed
>MailScanner on it. I installed through the install script.
>
>When virii come in they are caught by the filename rules and not by
>clamav.

Are you using the command-line clamav or the perl module? I would suspect
the perl-MIME-tools didn't install correctly.


>Not all perl modules installed during install. Don't know if this is
>because the module is alrteady present in the perl installation or
>because there may be a problem building the rpms.
>
>Why can't I install the rpms after building them and wouldn't it be nice
>if MailScanner would report any missing (vital) modules on startup or in
>the maillog?

It won't even start up if there is much missing, it can't try to run code
that doesn't exist.


>These are the rpms installed by the install script:
>perl-Archive-Zip-1.09-3
>perl-Compress-Zlib-1.33-2
>perl-Convert-BinHex-1.119-2
>perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-1
>perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-17
>perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-28
>perl-IO-stringy-2.108-1
>perl-MailTools-1.50-1
>perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.3
>perl-Net-CIDR-0.09-3
>perl-TimeDate-1.1301-3
>
>These are missing:
>perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-1.src.rpm
>perl-File-Spec-0.82-1.src.rpm
>perl-File-Temp-0.12-1.src.rpm
>perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-1.src.rpm
>
>These rpms all build without problems but when I try to install them rpm
>bombs out with an error message (i limited the below to one line per rpm):
>
>file /usr/share/man/man3/ExtUtils::MM_OS2.3pm.gz from install of
>perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-1 conflicts with file from package
>perl-5.8.0-88.4.TL1
>
>file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::VMS.3pm.gz from install of
>perl-File-Spec-0.82-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.0-88.4.TL1
>
>file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of
>perl-File-Temp-0.12-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.0-88.4.TL1
>
>file /usr/share/man/man3/MIME::Base64.3pm.gz from install of
>perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-1 conflicts with file from package
>perl-5.8.0-88.4.TL1
>
>
>
>
>Thanks!!
>Remco
>
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