CentOS and updates

[Kevin Miller]

Andrew Colin Kissa wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2012, at 10:35 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
> 
>> The easiest way is to remove the conflicting rpmforge packages,
>> install the updates, re-download the rpmforge packages, and install
>> them with rpm --nodocs... Well the easiest way is --force, but not
>> the best way... 
> 
> Why does he actually have to force install those modules, since they
> are already bundled with perl ? 
> 
> Remove those rpmforge modules they are not needed any longer.

I think they are needed.  Doing a MailScanner -V produced this:

root at smtp:~# MailScanner -V
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 107.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 107.

Rather than reinstall them from rpmforge though I just reran the MailScanner install script, as Julian packages them there.  How that will play out in the future if/when I need to again update perl I don't know.  But the 'fix' isn't too painful.

Note this is on CentOS 5.2. Maybe 6.2 has more recent versions of the perl modules...

 ...Kevin
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