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
