bug on FreeBSD with Perl 5.8.9

[Mikael Syska]

Hi,

I just upgraded from perl 5.8.8 to 5.8.9 .... and got this:
"Insecure dependency in chown while running with -T switch at
/usr/local/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 2207"

Well ... that can be turned off by adding -U to the MailScanner file
in /usr/local/sbin/MailScanner.
But then I just got alot of other errors:
Can't locate object method "1878035063" via package "vars" at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm line
52.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm line
52.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 100) line 1.
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/MIME/Parser.pm line 821
Can't locate object method "1878035063" via package "MIME::Decoder" at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/MIME/Decoder/Binary.pm line 42.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/MIME/Decoder/Binary.pm line 42.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 101) line 1.
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/MIME/Parser.pm line 827
Can't locate object method "1878035063" via package "strict" at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/Text/ParseWords.pm line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/Text/ParseWords.pm line 3.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/File/Glob.pm line 152.



But ... if this is fixed in the current release I can't say ... the
freebsd ports tree contains: MailScanner-4.67.6_3 which is from 15 Sep
2008 20:56:38, so a little old. about a half a year.

So ... my only option I could find ... as my mail system was down was
to turn back to perl 5.8.8.

Anyone else got this problem ? On other systems ?

What does other freebsd sysadmins do to stay current and not have a
messed system where something is from other sources to be able to have
a up-to-date system ?
If there are any one out there also using freebsd ... and using Julian
package from http://mailscanner.info I will be more than happy to hear
from them.

well, its late here ... got darn freebsd update late .... reminder: DONT DO IT.

well .. its running now, only 22k messages to process :-p

best regards
Mikael Syska