Installing 4.56.7 on RHEL 2.1

[Scott Silva]

Tom G. Christensen spake the following on 10/2/2006 3:03 AM:
> I've just done a test upgrade from 4.41-3 to 4.56.7 on an RHEL 2.1 host.
> There were several issues that I've described below.
> 
> Before installing the host had 4.41-3 with the perl module versions
> installed that was distributed with that version of MailScanner + a few
> updates/extras.
> Here's MailScanner -v output from a production host with the same config:
> ---
> This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 2.1 (Panama)
> This is Perl version 5.006001 (5.6.1)
> 
> This is MailScanner version 4.41.3
> Module versions are:
> 1.14    Archive::Zip
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.03    Fcntl
> 2.6     File::Basename
> 2.03    File::Copy
> 2.00    FileHandle
> 1.0404  File::Path
> 0.12    File::Temp
> 1.29    HTML::Entities
> 3.45    HTML::Parser
> 2.30    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.20    IO
> 1.08    IO::File
> 1.121   IO::Pipe
> 1.50    Mail::Header
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.417   MIME::Decoder
> 5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.417   MIME::Head
> 5.417   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.417   MIME::Tools
> 0.10    Net::CIDR
> 1.03    POSIX
> 1.72    Socket
> 0.01    Sys::Syslog
> 1.01    Time::localtime
> 
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.75    DB_File
> missing Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.33    Digest::MD5
> 2.10    Digest::SHA1
> missing Inline
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 2.64    Mail::SpamAssassin
> missing Mail::SPF::Query
> missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.49    Net::DNS
> missing Net::LDAP
> missing Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> missing Sys::Hostname::Long
> 1.1604  Test::Harness
> missing Test::Simple
> missing Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
> ---
> 
> Since I'd be updating SA to 3.1.5 later I had built (with cpan2rpm) and
> installed perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker 6.30, perl-Getopt-Long 2.35,
> perl-Compress-Zlib 1.42, perl-IO-Zlib 1.04 and perl-Archive-Tar 1.30
> before doing the MailScanner upgrade.
> 
> I ran ./install.sh to do the installation but several modules failed to
> build and the tnef package could not be installed.
> The modules that failed where:
> perl-DBI
> perl-File-Temp
> perl-Sys-Syslog
> perl-Archive-Zip
> perl-DBD-SQLite
> 
> All of them except perl-DBD-SQLite fails because they need Test::More to
> run their tests. I installed perl-Test-Simple 0.51 which I happened to
> have around and this fixes it for perl-Archive-Zip and perl-File-Temp.
> perl-DBI still fails because it also needs perl-Storable. Curiously the
> distribution includes perl-Storable-2.15 but install.sh doesn't build
> it. Rebuilding it by hand works fine. Perl-DBI still fails to complete
> but what is even worse is that during the build it installs files
> directly into /usr instead of the BuildRoot! (exactly why I never build
> stuff as root under normal circumstances).
> I instead used cpan2rpm to package perl-DBI 1.50 and that produces a
> working src.rpm.
> perl-Sys-Syslog fails the build stage and seems not to be perl 5.6.1
> compatible out of the box (5.6.1 lacks const char * in the typemap which
> Sys-Syslog wants). Adding a typemap file to the source with this alias
> fixes the build. I ended up building a new src.rpm altogether using
> cpan2rpm after I discovered that the build failed on RHEL 3 & 4 with
> unpackaged file errors.
> perl-DBD-SQLite fails because SQLite is not available. After installing
> SQLite and the new perl-DBI it builds fine.
> 
> The tnef package requires glibc 2.3 and is thus incompatible with RHEL
> 2.1 which is based on glibc 2.2. I fixed up the specfile included in the
> upstream source and rebuilt it to fix this.
> 
> I realize that I'm fighting a loosing battle since most people are
> running newer versions of perl and newer Linux dists etc.
> Just thought you should know that atleast the RPM version of MailScanner
> seems to effectively require perl 5.8 and glibc 2.3 for easy installation.
> 
> With that said here's MailScanner 4.56.7 with SpamAssassin 3.1.5 running
> on RHEL 2.1...
> 
> ---
> [root at eon MailScanner-4.56.7-1]# MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux eon 2.4.9-e.65 #1 Thu Aug 4 20:19:30 EDT 2005 i686 unknown
> This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 2.1 (Panama)
> This is Perl version 5.006001 (5.6.1)
> 
> This is MailScanner version 4.56.7
> Module versions are:
> 1.16    Archive::Zip
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.03    Fcntl
> 2.6     File::Basename
> 2.03    File::Copy
> 2.00    FileHandle
> 1.0404  File::Path
> 0.16    File::Temp
> 0.90    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.54    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.20    IO
> 1.08    IO::File
> 1.121   IO::Pipe
> 1.71    Mail::Header
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.420   MIME::Decoder
> 5.420   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.420   MIME::Head
> 5.420   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.420   MIME::Tools
> 0.10    Net::CIDR
> 1.03    POSIX
> 1.72    Socket
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.18    Sys::Syslog
> 1.86    Time::HiRes
> 1.01    Time::localtime
> 
> Optional module versions are:
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 1.75    DB_File
> 1.12    DBD::SQLite
> 1.50    DBI
> missing Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.33    Digest::MD5
> 2.10    Digest::SHA1
> missing Inline
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 3.001005        Mail::SpamAssassin
> missing Mail::SPF::Query
> missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 1.24    Net::IP
> 0.49    Net::DNS
> missing Net::LDAP
> missing Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 1.1604  Test::Harness
> 0.51    Test::Simple
> missing Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
> ---
> 
> sa-update is not yet working since it'll need a newer libwww-perl (for
> LWP::UserAgent) but otherwise it seems to be working well.
> 
> -tgc
That is why old distros go off of support and die. As time passes, it takes
more and more work to keep them running.


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