MailScanner, CentOS 5 and perl-IO & perl-File-Temp

[Randal, Phil]

I do something like this:

service MailScanner stopms

rpm -e perl-IO
rpm -e perl-Math-BigInt
rpm -e perl-Math-BigRat
rpm -e perl-bignum
rpm -e perl-File-Temp

(and any other perl modules it complains about)

yum update perl

... Reinstall MailScanner from Julian's install.sh script

service MailScanner restart 

and, to be on the safe side, finish off with a

yum update

Messy, I know, but it works.

Cheers,

Phil

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-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Craig
White
Sent: 03 April 2009 16:39
To: MailScanner List
Subject: MailScanner, CentOS 5 and perl-IO & perl-File-Temp

# rpm -q mailscanner
mailscanner-4.74.16-1

I can't be the only person dealing with this and I'm trying to figure
out the best way to handle it. When updating to CentOS 5.3, I ran into
conflicts between CentOS perl package and perl-IO & perl-File-Temp
packages.

so I remove perl-IO & perl-File-Temp packages (and some others, less
important) and update moves along.

but then I restart MailScanner because of various perl changes and it
complains bitterly and won't start...

Starting MailScanner
daemons:

         incoming postfix:     [  OK  ]
         outgoing postfix:     [  OK  ]
         MailScanner:       File::Temp version 0.18 required--this is
only version 0.16 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Tools.pm line
14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Tools.pm line 14.
Compilation failed in require
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 142.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 142.
Compilation failed in require
at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/MCPMessage.pm line 41.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/MCPMessage.pm line 41.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 81.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 81.

so I force the installation of perl-IO and perl-File-Temp and things are
OK...MailScanner will start. But then CentOS issues another perl update
and I have to remove them again to update and force the install again to
get MailScanner to run.

There has to be a better way than this...this is no way to run a
railroad.

Craig


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