Got a real nightmare on my hands installing the newest

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:48:00 am Julian 
Field wrote:
> On 13/10/2009 15:40, Steve Campbell wrote:
> > Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> >> On Monday 12 October 2009 3:53:13 pm Steve 
Campbell wrote:
> >>>>> I just tried updating MS on a Centos 3
> >>>>> box. Seems like a lot of the perl modules
> >>>>> need perl-5.8.1, while the latest perl
> >>>>> for Centos 3 is only 5.8.0-94, so a lot
> >>>>> of stuff failed, along with MS.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I started installing what was needed with
> >>>>> rpmbuild, but got into the dependency
> >>>>> circle, so I tried going back a to MS
> >>>>> 4.72. Now a lot of the modules were
> >>>>> deleted by the new stuff and I'm not sure
> >>>>> that they weren't just ignored in the
> >>>>> 4.72 install.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyone got a suggestion for me who has
> >>>>> done the Centos 3 install?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>
> >>>>> steve campbell
> >>
> >> I, too, am still using CentOS 3 as my mail
> >> server platform, and I, too, ran into the
> >> problems you describe.  I'm running the same
> >> perl version as you, as well.  IIRC, I
> >> updated all of the perl modules that MS uses
> >> (from Dag repository), then installed MS
> >> from the RPM itself.  It worked/is still
> >> working great.
> >>
> >> HTH.
> >>
> >> Dimitri
> >
> > Dimitri,
> >
> > How did you get around the Perl 5.8.1
> > dependency of some of the modules? Doesn't it
> > still complain and fail even with the non-Dag
> > stuff? I have the rpmforge repo on this
> > system. Is Dag and rpmforge still the same?
> > Think I'll try your way another day.
> >
> > I got my system back by running an older
> > version upgrade, then moving back to the
> > version I started with. Seems that older
> > versions didn't remove things, and if the new
> > perl module failed, it could still work OK,
> > but the newer install tends to remove things
> > first. If that hadn't worked, I was going to
> > do a restore of the entire server from last
> > week. I'm still a little worried I might not
> > have something that's not just right.
>
> You can do "./install.sh --inturn" which will
> remove and then reinstall each module in turn.
> You can do "./install.sh --help" to get all the
> command-line options.
>
> Jules
>
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Jules,

Was "./install.sh --inturn" available in version 
4.76?  That was the version in which I 
encountered problems, and my work-around did work 
in lieu of a better solution at the time, and a 
need to get MS fixed QUICK.

Dimitri

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