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[Craig White]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 04:45 +0000, Julian Field wrote:
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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.
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> >> Whether he should update his installer to use 5.424 is his call.
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> >> Sometimes you just have to take the pain of keeping things up to date
> >> and dealing with the breakages.
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> >> We certainly will have to if we become dependent on the rpmforge repo.
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> > 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.
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Jules...that isn't practical or recommended.

mixing cpan installs with rpm installs can create havoc

Craig