Install error after updating perl

[Kevin Spicer]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 13:01, Alan wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:11:03 +0100, Kevin Spicer <kevins at BMRB.CO.UK> wrote:
>
> >Well, you don't need the current version of perl for either MailScanner
> >or SpamAssassin, if its security fixes you're worried about then the
> >important patches will have been back-ported by most vendors.  Take a
> >look at the fedora legacy project.
>
> The announcement for SA3.0 indicated:
>   "The SpamAssassin 2.6x release series was the last set of releases to
>   officially support perl versions earlier than perl 5.6.1"
>
> and as RH 7.2 runs 5.6.0 I knew I had to upgrade perl. Figured if I was
> going to upgrade, I may as well upgrade to the current version. Is there a
> better version I should go to the meets SA 3.0's requirements and is
> available as an rpm for 7.2?

Ah, I understand (I knew SA 3 was breaking compatibility with old
versions of perl, but I didn't realise it was dropping 5.6.0 support).
I think I would probably have tried the 5.6.1 rpm for RH 7.3 from
fedoralegacy before compiling from source, but if its working now...

Of course what I'd most likely have done is installed a more up to date
version of linux.  RH 7.2 is pretty old now.




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