[Mimedefang] MIME-Base64-3.03 and Fedora Core

[Troy Carpenter]

Well, seemed to have no problem with this.  I am running Fedora Core
Rawhide (yes, I am both brave and stupid).

I downloaded MD 2.45 and the newer MIME-tools package.  I compiled and
installed MIME-tools, then tried to build 2.45 from the tarball.  It told
me that it needed MIME::Base64 > 3.05 or something like that.

I then did "cpan install MIME::Base64" and it downloaded 3.05, compiled
and installed.  I was able to build MD 2.45 rpm and install it after that.

After installing the rpm, I restarted the multiplexor and it has been
running ever since.  Is there something I should be checking to see
whether or not I broke my sytem?

Troy Carpenter
troy at carpenter.cx



> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:14:31 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang]  MIME-Base64-3.03 and Fedora Core, possibly
> 	other Linux distributions
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
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> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
>
>> |         tar xvfz MIME-Base64-VERSION.tar.gz
>> |         cd MIME-Base64-VERSION
>> |         perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site
>> |         make
>> |         make install
>
>> This does not work - core Perl MIME-Base64 is used anyway because
>> Fedora Core and, I suppose, other linux distributions have
>> "site-perl" directories after core Perl directories in @INC:
>
> That's why this code appears in mimedefang.pl.in:
>
> # Move site library directory ahead of default library directory in @INC.
> # That's so we can sanely package our own version of MIME::Base64 that
> # won't conflict with the built-in one on RPM-based platforms.
> use lib '@PERLINSTALLSITELIB@';
>
>> It's impossible to install MIME::Base64 3.05 without breaking Perl
>> package and it is impossible to creating MIME::Base64 package. The
>> only way to do it right is creating new Perl package with bundled
>> MIME::Base64 3.05.
>
> Nope.  Believe it or not, I did actually test this! :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> David.