[PLUG] Custom perl...
To get spamcannibal to work, I need to replace CentOS 5.6's perl-5.8.8 with perl-5.12.1 or better. How do I get yum update to work despite the fact that I'm breaking the perl dependencies? Can I get yum to report the dependencies and then ignore them? I need to know what I thinks is missing so I can cpan2rpm install them... Michael C. Robinson This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Custom perl...
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, someone wrote: To get spamcannibal to work, I need to replace CentOS 5.6's perl-5.8.8 with perl-5.12.1 or better. How do I get yum update to work despite the fact that I'm breaking the perl dependencies? Can I get yum to report the dependencies and then ignore them? I need to know what I thinks is missing so I can cpan2rpm install them... Michael, I'm always reluctant to overwrite a core CentOS package like perl. Too many other utilities have perl tie-ins to make that an easily maintained solution. My suggestion: create , e.g., /usr/local/spamcannibal. The build your own Perl and install it there. The use that perl, /usr/local/spamcannibal/bin/perl (or whatever), to build and install the other modules spamcannibal needs to operate. In your mail configs, use that installation, rather than /usr/bin/perl, to run things. Ideally, you'd keep track of everything you did for the build and codify it in a shell script so it can be repeated if necessary. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Custom perl...
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:12:03 -0700 someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: To get spamcannibal to work, I need to replace CentOS 5.6's perl-5.8.8 with perl-5.12.1 or better. How do I get yum update to work despite the fact that I'm breaking the perl dependencies? Can I get yum to report the dependencies and then ignore them? I need to know what I thinks is missing so I can cpan2rpm install them... Michael C. Robinson The deplist command to yum will list the dependencies for a package. Note that there are a lot of them for perl. You'll probably have to enable the Fedora repositories (fedora.repo, fedora-updates.repo) so that yum will see the version of perl that you want. Then you should be able to do yum upgrade perl-5.12.3-143.fc14 That should pull in perl and all of its dependencies. (I'm still running F14; I have no idea if F15 has a later release of perl.) WARNING: I THINK this will work, but I've never done it before. I have no idea what other things might be pulled in if you do this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Good Luck! --Dale -- Ivanova: Always finding the good in any situation, eh Captain? Sheridan: Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting
From: David Mandel dman...@pdxlinux.org To: Portland Linux User Group Announcements plug-annou...@pdxlinux.org, Portland Linux User Group p...@pdxlinux.org, Eugene Linux Users List eug...@euglug.org, Mid-Willamette Valley Linux Users Group mwv...@googlegroups.com CC: David Mandel dman...@davidmandel.com, Geoff Burling llyw...@agora.rdrop.com, Dennis Gilbert den...@pdx.edu, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2011 at Portland State University in the Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering Computer Science Building Room FAB 86-01 (This is in the basement.) The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg *** PRESENTATION Open Source Software in State Agencies by Michael Smith Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon. He will discuss his experience introducing and trying to introduce Open Source Solutions into state government agencies. Michael, you may wish to elaborate on my abstract. *** Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc. 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation See above 9:00 - ... Beer The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon David Mandel Chief Activist Portland Linux/Unix Group 560 SE Alexander Corvallis, Oregon 97333 (541) 730-5285 mobile dmandel at pdxLinux.org P.S. The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying to reorganize. See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details. P.S. The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month. See http://www.euglug.org for details. == David Mandelhttp://www.DavidMandel.com Portland Linux/Unix Group http://pdxLinux.org LinuxFund http://LinuxFund.org == ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2011 at Portland State University in the Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering Computer Science Building Room FAB 86-01 (This is in the basement.) The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg *** PRESENTATION Open Source Software in State Agencies by Michael Smith Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon. He will discuss his experience introducing and trying to introduce Open Source Solutions into state government agencies. Michael, you may wish to elaborate on my abstract. *** Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc. 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation See above 9:00 - ... Beer The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon David Mandel Chief Activist Portland Linux/Unix Group 560 SE Alexander Corvallis, Oregon 97333 (541) 730-5285 mobile dmandel at pdxLinux.org P.S. The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group is trying to reorganize. See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details. P.S. The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month. See http://www.euglug.org for details. == David Mandel http://www.DavidMandel.com Portland Linux/Unix Group http://pdxLinux.org LinuxFund http://LinuxFund.org == ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] Spamcannibal MakeMaker mess...
I installed perl-5.14.1 from source and followed a Redhat Enterprise Linux how to upgrade to 5.10.0 to deduce what perl packages need to be added manually. None of the GD packages want to install, don't know how important these are though. I couldn't get the Glib or Gtk packages to install either. I had trouble as well with the IO::SSLeay package. The real trouble though is with Spamcannibal. Apparently, Michael Robinton hacked MakeMaker, and it has since been updated. I got a bunch of warnings in CPAN. Is there a way to back a package out in perl? I hate to start over entirely again. At least I stored a list of what packages I added to try to satisfy what the stock perl has. True that perl is a dependency for many things, but Redhat is so slow to upgrade perl and so many bugs are getting squashed that it is downright scary to stick with the stock 5.8.8. Back to MakeMaker, how do I safely use the older version temporarily to get past the warnings? Is there any chance that someone has a competing package that does the same thing without ugly hacks? How about a commercial tarpit program? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] XID database for Windows and Linux???
XID is a program that allows you to have say a picture and multiple ways to reference that picture. The software works on Windows. Is there a Linux version? Has anyone used XID under WINE? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Spamcannibal MakeMaker mess...
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: ... True that perl is a dependency for many things, but Redhat is so slow to upgrade perl and so many bugs are getting squashed that it is downright scary to stick with the stock 5.8.8. ... If you were to take a gander at perl's changelog, you might notice that redhat doesn't stick with the stock 5.8.8 either. They cherry pick the fixes, and particularly the security fixes, from the newer releases and backport them into the version that they support. Ali ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
