Re: [PLUG] Custom perl...
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:12:03 -0700 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 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
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
[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
