Yum updates for Perl, just say no?

[Scott Silva]

on 7-24-2008 4:12 PM Steve Mason spake the following:
> I just finished building a new server , Centos 5.2 with MailScanner 
> 4.70.7 (from, RPM)  and Mailwatch 1.0.4. It's running absolutely 
> beautifully!
> 
> I almost did a yum -y update today, but decided I'd better check what it 
> wants to update.
> 
> Looks like it wants to update a boatload of Perl modules.  I'm assuming 
> that I *don't* want it to do that.
> Should I configure yum to exclude perl modules?  Anything else I should 
> exclude to prevent MailScanner troubles?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
What repos are you using? I have installed all the mailscanner prerequisites 
from rpmforge, and all is well here.

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

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