yum repositories, was: Just some ideas for upcoming MailScanner
releases
Tom G. Christensen
tgc at statsbiblioteket.dk
Fri Sep 7 11:31:08 IST 2007
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
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