MS on a RHEL rebuild, perl modules problem?

[Remco Barendse]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> 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.

I installed clamav from the tarball, no perl modules. When i start
if from the commandline on of the files in quarantine it immediately
catches the virus.



> >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.

OK, thanks! I guess that means that the mdoules that refused to install
are already there even though they do not show up with a rpm -qa?


> >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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