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[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:
> on 12/9/2007 4:15 AM Randal, Phil spake the following:
>> I guess the big question is whether Jules can put a fix in for
>> perl-MIME-Tools version 5.424  without breaking 5.420-compatibility.
>>
>> Whether he should update his installer to use 5.424 is his call.
>>
>> Sometimes you just have to take the pain of keeping things up to date
>> and dealing with the breakages.
>>
>> We certainly will have to if we become dependent on the rpmforge repo.
>>
> He will eventually have to patch it, as sooner or later, some linux 
> distro will be using 5.424. I'm sure he will get to it as his time 
> permits. His fix for perl-mailtools came very quickly.
>
It didn't require any code mods at all. If you had installed the new 
MIME-tools via CPAN instead of just rpmforge, you would have picked up 
its requirements correctly. It needs a new File-Temp, IO and IO-stringy.
Then it appears to work just fine.

Jules

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