Hi Hugo,<br><br><b><i>Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Michael Mansour wrote:<br><br>> The thing which I found odd though is that the RPM's that the perl RPM's<br>> clash with are the ones that were built by the MailScanner install.sh scipt.<br>> <br>> It was always my understanding that when MailScanner finds the perl<br>> module installed, it wouldn't try and force the build of the MailScanner<br>> src rpm?<br><br>The use of --force pretty much means it will ignore a nuber of things.<br>So it will override another package.<br></blockquote>Yes I realise that, but in the early days when I'd go through (in detail) the output logs of the install.sh, I remember seeing many packages not installed (forced or otherwise) because MailScanner determined the perl
modules were already installed.<br><br>Albiet the last time I went through that output with a fine tooth comb was about two years ago, the MailScanner install script should realise when a perl module exists, it doesn't need to compile a new one.<br><br>It makes sense if all this was properly in a repo using rpmforge to avoid these types of duplicate pm's (I will try the RHEL5 repo on an SL5 VM in about a fortnight from now - but all my MailScanner servers are SL4.5).<br><br>BTW, I checked on the Dag site here:<br><br>http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/mailscanner/_buildlogs/<br><br>and it seems Dag has been trying to get mailscanner supported for a while, even though I haven't heard anything from him in the rpmforge suggest or users lists.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Michael.<br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">Hugo.<br></blockquote><p> 
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