building on Red Hat EL v 5

[Craig White]

That is not a very good solution.

The perl package itself has perl-Test-Simple built in so the 'forced'
install is unnecessary if not injurious.

Craig

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:57 +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
> Not such a big problem, though a nuisance.
> 
> I've added 
> 
> exclude=perl-MIME-Base64 perl-Test-Simple
> 
> to my /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo file as a workaround.
> 
> Phil
> 
> --
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> > Of Craig White
> > Sent: 15 October 2007 23:30
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: building on Red Hat EL v 5
> > 
> > Actually...this system is CentOS-5
> > 
> > # rpm -q
> > --whatprovides 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/APR/Base64.pm
> > mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5
> > 
> > this one is worse...
> > 
> > # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/man/man3/Test\:\:Simple.3pm.gz
> > perl-5.8.8-10
> > perl-Test-Simple-0.70-1
> > 
> > apparently new mailscanner is forcing the install of these items...
> > 
> > # rpm -q mailscanner
> > mailscanner-4.64.3-2
> > 
> > Thus the forcing of perl-Test-Simple and perl-MIME-Base64 are 
> > a problem
> > - especially when you want to update.
> > 
> > Craig
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