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[Julian Field]

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Julian Field wrote:
> * PGP Signed: 12/10/07 at 05:13:21
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> Julian Field wrote:
>> > Old Signed: 12/10/07 at 04:45:28
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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.
> I have just released 4.66.4 which checks to see you have a consistent 
> pair of MIME-tools and IO-stringy, as they are the important ones.
Correction: MIME-tools and IO. IO-stringy doesn't appear to be as 
critical. Without the IO module update, MIME-tools won't even build.

> Please try this with your current installation (ie just install the 
> mailscanner*rpm file) and see if it catches the error correctly. Then 
> run the whole install.sh to get the new modules and then try it again 
> and it should work this time.
This still applies.

Jules

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