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

[Julian Field]

On 19 May 2005, at 12:09, John Wilcock wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> MailScanner and SpamAssassin should both run okay on Perl 5.6.1.
>>
>
> ... but would they run "better" on 5.8.x? Is it worth it? As far as I
> can tell from the current snapshot, even the forthcoming SA 3.1
> will run
> on 5.6.1.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thanks Julian.
>
> So if I do decide to go through with the update, here's my
> understanding
> of what I need to do in a bit more detail. Is this right?
>
> 0. Build an RPM of perl 5.8.x
> 1. Note all perl modules currently installed
> 2. rpm -e those perl modules that have been installed by rpm
> 3. rpm -e perl --nodeps
> 4. rm -rf /usr/lib/perl5 (or rather rename it just in case)
> 5. rpm -i perl-5.8...rpm
> 6. Reinstall (the latest versions of) perl module RPMs
> 7. Reinstall (the latest versions of) all other modules using CPAN
>
> and of course
>
> 8. Install spamassassin and MailScanner!

That all looks okay to me.

>
> Any gotchas? Anything I've overlooked? Am I safe doing the --nodeps
> when
> I remove the perl or would I be better off letting it remove
> everything
> and reinstalling afterwards?
>
> John.
>
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