Semi-OT: installing MS on an old redhat box - perl version?

[Tom G. Christensen]

Julian Field wrote:
> MailScanner and SpamAssassin should both run okay on Perl 5.6.1.
 >
And they do.

I have several RHEL 2.1 machines that are running a Mailscanner,
Spamassassin, ClamAV, Etrust, Bitdefender and Mailwatch combo.

They're plain RHEL 2.1 with only a few strategic upgrades to some perl
modules, all done with cpan2rpm for cleanliness.

> I would download the source tarball of Perl, or the SRPM of it, and
> work on that. Remove the whole of /usr/lib/perl and the RPM's of it
> all before you actually do the "install" step. Then you can be
> confident that your old installation has gone.
>
I just had a go at the FC3 SRPM on my RHEL 2.1 buildhost and with a little
tweaking it works.

-tgc

> On 19 May 2005, at 08:19, John Wilcock wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the off-topic, but I know many here will have the necessary
>> experience...
>>
>> I've inherited a colocated redhat 7.2 box. Upgrading the OS is not an
>> option. This box originally had perl 5.6.0 and has been updated to
>> 5.6.1
>> using the official redhat rpm for rh7.2.
>>
>> I now want to install MailScanner, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, MailWatch,
>> etc.
>> on the box. Can I stick with perl 5.6.1 or would I be better going to
>> 5.8.x? If I choose to (or need to) upgrade perl, what's the best and
>> cleanest way of going about it? I'd like to avoid the horror
>> situations
>> we sometimes hear about on this list and elsewhere when boxes have
>> multiple versions of perl installed, or remnants of old versions.
>>
>> Would I be better off letting CPAN upgrade perl for me, or should I
>> get
>> a recent fedora SRPM and rebuild it, or what?
>>
>> John.
>>

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