Issue after CentOS upgrade to 5.4 using yum/rpm for perl modules

[Iulian L Dragomir]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Edward Prendergast
<edward.prendergast at netring.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After having upgraded to CentOS 5.4 I'm seeing the following errors from
> MailScanner:
>
> [root at server8 MailScanner]# MailScanner --version
> is only avaliable with the XS version at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
> Compilation failed in require at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm
> line 48.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 108.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 108.
>
> I tried upgrading to the latest version of MailScanner
> (MailScanner-4.78.17-1 installed from MailScanner-4.78.17-1.rpm.tar.gz's
> install.sh) but this hasn't resolved the issue.
>
> After yum upgrades downgrading perl packages below the minimum version
> requirement for MailScanner my process to fix has usually been:
>
> 1) Identify problem packages from MailScanner errors
> 2) Add these to yum exclude list
> 3) Reinstall MailScanner stable and allow it to force the packages back up
> to the right version
>
> As shown above this approach hasn't worked this time.
>
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
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Some time ago Redhat/Centos repo from rpmforge replaced some neat perl rpms.

Try this to reverse the efect.

remove:
perl-IO-Compress

install :
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib
perl-IO-Compress-Base
perl-Compress-Zlib

Add these to yum exclude list