notice: up2date and perl

[Stephen Swaney]

In a typical MailScanner installation 2p2date, on a Red Hat or yum on a
CentOS, Whitebox and Tao system will update:

        perl-5.8.0-89.10.i386.rpm
        perl-CGI-2.81-89.10.i386.rpm
        perl-CPAN-1.61-89.10.i386.rpm
        perl-DBI-1.32-9.i386.rpm
        perl-DB_File-1.804-89.10.i386.rpm

The new perl upgrade appears to install an older version of MIME::Base64 but
since Julian installs and references his own version (3.05) of MIME::Base64
in /usr/lib/MailScanner/utilities, this doesn't seem to stop MailScanner
from working correctly.

After the update I used CPAN to install the latest version of MIME::Base64
with no problems since some mail related applications, i.e. the latest
openwebmail, will break if they find the older version.

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Phone: 202 338-1670
Cell: 202 352-3262
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

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