Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

[Kevin MacNeil <k macneil verizon net>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:03:18PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
 
> Does MailScanner work or are you just worried about the dependency
> errors? Did you use Julian's install.sh script to install it?

I just installed the MailScanner rpm file. It works fine, but the
dependency errors are keeping apt-get dist-upgrade from working as it
should. It wants to uninstall MailScanner to make the problem go away.

> apt dies not know if the perl stuff is there or not,  It only knows if
> you have installed it via rpm.
> 
> what does 
> 
> rpm -qa|grep perl 
> 
> show? 

I can't get the perl *src.rpms to compile because they're tripping over
the modules I've already installed from CPAN. This happens even after
renaming the affected directories under /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0.

> Also FWIW 4.23-11 is out and has a few bugfixes from the 23-10 that
> was released a day or so ago.  I do not think they were related to
> perl rpms though.

Well, I guess I'll just download the new version and compile the
binaries myself. I can't see any reasonable way to get things working
with rpm.

I am a little disappointed in rpm at the moment. People have always
complained about this sort of thing but it's the first time I've been
bitten by it.