[Mimedefang] Re: Upgrading from old version (2.28)

[mimedefang at bierling.net]

I started the process of upgrading and ran into a few problems.  First, 
all the directions for SpamAssassin assume you want to upgrade to the 
newest version and recommend using CPAN.  But I can't figure out how to 
upgrade to 2.64 rather than 3.0 using CPAN.  Anyone else know?

I tried installing SpamAssassin 2.64 from the .tar.gz, and "perl 
MAKEFILE.PL" fails since it claims not to be able to find pod2man on my 
path but pod2man is definitely in /usr/bin.  Strange.  So I tried 
installing SA 2.64 from the .rpm and it spits out some warnings about 
missing a user called felicity and a group called fame and then does 
nothing.  Equally strange.  Searching Google groups for these errors 
doesn't yield any help.

So, trying to figure out something else productive I can do while I work 
on the above problems, I then update all the required MIMEDefang Perl 
modules using CPAN which works ok except some of the names on the 
MIMEDefang download page don't appear to be the current/correct names so 
that takes some figuring out, and CPAN installs a slightly older version 
of IO:stringy.  But I think this went OK.

I then tried compiling MIMEDefang and run ./configure and it runs into 
an error with MIME::WordDecoder and tells me to make sure the Perl 
modules I installed above are the latest versions.  I check CPAN again 
and it says everything is up to date.

So I guess I'm stuck right now.  Anyone have ideas?  As you probably can 
tell, I don't do this every day.

Thanks,
-Joel