Workaround for MailScanner RPM installation when using 'Perl from source'

[Julian Field]

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Yes, sorry, you are quite right. The ClamAV+SA package has a --perl  
option, but the main MailScanner one doesn't.

On 5 Oct 2005, at 18:52, Philip Hachey wrote:

> That is not a recognized option for install.sh.  The only available  
> options
> are "nodeps", "ingore-perl", and "fast".  That might be a nice  
> option to
> have -- although it's likely easier just to remove the PREFIX  
> variable in
> the RPM spec files and let the perl binary decide upon paths.
>
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:59:25 +0100, Julian Field
> <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
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>> What's wrong with
>> ./install.sh --perl=/usr/local/bin/perl
>> ?
>>
>> On 4 Oct 2005, at 21:26, Philip Hachey wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have been using MailScanner for some time now.  I have it
>>> installed on a
>>> WhiteBox 3 (clone of RHEL 3) server.  Prior to the recent  
>>> MailScanner
>>> upgrade (via RPMs), I had installed the most recent version of Perl
>>> (5.8.7) from the source available at CPAN.  In addition to the
>>> operating
>>> system RPM version of Perl (5.8.0) located under /usr/lib/perl5,  
>>> I now
>>> have this new version of Perl located under /usr/local/lib/perl5.
>>> I also
>>> swapped /usr/bin/perl with a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin/perl.
>>>
>>> When MailScanner installs, it recognizes both Perls, but during the
>>> installation of MailScanner's included Perl RPM modules, the  
>>> paths it
>>> decides to use for the installation are /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 and /
>>> usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 .
>>>
>>> POSSIBLE FIX: The correct paths would have been used if, in the
>>> spec file
>>> of each of the Perl RPMs, the call to 'perl Makefile.PL' did NOT
>>> include
>>> the PREFIX argument.
>>>
>>> TEMPORARY WORKAROUND:  Before installing MailScanner, do the
>>> following:
>>> # ln --symbolic /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7
>>> # ln --symbolic /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
>>>
>>>
>>> There is an additional problem I've noticed that, after having used
>>> CPAN
>>> to grab the latest version of various Perl modules, MailScanner
>>> will still
>>> install a lower version: those modules marked "IsABundle" in
>>> install.sh.
>>> Is this intentional?  Should I not be upgrading these modules via
>>> CPAN?
>>>
>
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