Debian and the latest perl security updates

[Scott Silva]

on 12-3-2008 6:51 AM Jonas Akrouh Larsen spake the following:
> Hi Jason
> 
> Yep its normal that mailscanner breaks when debian do perl realted updates.
> 
> My normal solution is always to do the debian upgrades, run a Mailscanner -V
> and see if anything looks wrong.
> 
> If anything is missing or an older version (you can compare with the list
> before the perl modules upgrade) then install the newest perl module via
> cpan.
> 
> This is something those of us who's chosen the combo of MailScanner and
> debian have to live with.
> 
> 
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
>  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Desai,
> Jason
> Sent: 3. december 2008 15:01
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Debian and the latest perl security updates
> 
> For those who use Debian and Julian's tar.gz install package:
> 
> Debian just released a perl security update.  After installing the
> update, MailScanner will not start (for me anyways), giving the
> following error:
> 
> Starting MailScanner...File::Temp version 0.18 required--this is only
> version 0.16 at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MIME/Tools.pm line 14.
> 
> I suspect the update is overwriting something.  I haven't take a lot of
> time to investigate, but to work around it, I renamed my existing
> MailScanner folder, re-ran install.sh (to get the required perl modules
> installed), deleted the new MailScanner folder, and then renamed the old
> one back.
> 
> mv /opt/MailScanner-4.72.5-1 /opt/MailScanner-4.72.5-1.tmp 
> cd MailScanner-install-4.72.5
> ./install.sh
> rm -rf /opt/MailScanner-4.72.5-1
> mv /opt/MailScanner-4.72.5-1.tmp /opt/MailScanner-4.72.5-1
> 
> Hope this helps someone.  At the very least, restart MailScanner after
> you do the perl update to make sure it will start back up.
> 
> Jase
> 
It isn't just Debian. CentOS also had a perl update a few months back that
broke things. It all comes down to testing things after an update to make sure
that it still functions.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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