yum repositories, was: Just some ideas for upcoming MailScanner releases

[Tom G. Christensen]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Tom G. Christensen wrote on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:17:22 +0200:
> 
>> How do you propose to solve the problem that it's not really possible to 
>> upgrade a number of core perl modules using rpms without installing with 
>> --force due to file conflicts?
> 
> You don't need to upgrade unless the module on an older distribution 
> doesn't meet the needs.
> 
The MS tarball includes atleast one core module newer than what is 
shipped with perl 5.8.8.
The module is File::Temp v0.18, perl 5.8.8 only ships with v0.16.
This means even a dist like CentOS5 needs this module updated unless the 
  version dependency is lowered.
In CentOS3 & 4 perl is shipped with an INC path that leaves vendor_perl 
last, which means you cannot actually upgrade a core module without 
overwriting the files in the main perl package.
Fortunately in CentOS5 this has been changed and vendor_perl is now 
searched before core by default.

-tgc