{MCP?} Re: CentOS - Removed perl-IO due to bug in updating via 'yum'

Paul Simpkin paul.simpkin at hitec-systems.co.uk
Fri Feb 13 00:39:08 GMT 2009


Hummm, could I undo what I did? 

Just as I was on a high that I fixed it and all the mail missing from today was processed in the last hour! 

:) and :(



-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
Sent: 13 February 2009 00:25
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subject: Re: {MCP?} Re: CentOS - Removed perl-IO due to bug in updating via 'yum'

on 2-12-2009 4:19 PM Paul Simpkin spake the following:
> Thanks, I just tried this:
> 
> ERROR: You must upgrade your perl IO module to at least reinstall the 
> perl IO moudle (perl-IO) from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org)
> 
> wget 
> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/IO-1.2301.tar.gz
> tar xvfz IO-1.2301.tar.gz
> cd IO-1.2301
> perl Makefile.PL
> make test
> make install
> 
> 
> And it worked....
> 
> Was that bad? 
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> Sorry panic moment! :(
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott 
> Silva
> Sent: 13 February 2009 00:07
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: {MCP?} Re: CentOS - Removed perl-IO due to bug in updating via 'yum'
> 
> on 2-12-2009 3:31 PM Paul Simpkin spake the following:
>> I was told to update my server for other reason, not knowing that 
>> perl-IO was used by mailscanner.
>>
>>  
>>
>> There is a few posts on how to fix CentOS by removing the perl-IO, 
>> someone from the Datecenter I rent my server from asked me to remove 
>> this and now mailscanner will not start.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Now when I run ‘yum install perl-IO’ I get the error bellow!
>>
>>  
>>
>> Can anyone help me reinstall perl-IO now I think perl has been updated?
>>
>>  
> you can try this one;
> http://yum.vanderkooij.org/rpm2html/el5-i386/perl-IO-1.2301-2.HvdK.noa
> rch.html
> 
> Or just enable Hugo's repo and yum install mailscanner.wrapper
> 
> http://yum.vanderkooij.org
> 
> 
> --
> MailScanner is like deodorant...
> You hope everybody uses it, and
> you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
> 
> 
> 
With an RPM based system it can be bad. The main way of adding and removing packages in your system now doesn't know about this change. It could break in the future.

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





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