[Mimedefang] Installing mimedefang to SLES: perl modules

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Aug 25 16:36:25 EDT 2005


Tanel Kokk wrote:

> I want to install mimedefang to SuSE Enterprise Server. Mimedfang
> requires cpan module MIME::Base64 and at least version 3.03.
> Unfortunately SLES standard perl contains already MIME::Base64 module,
> version 2.21. So what is most correct way to upgrade MIME::Base64 module?

I hate RPM...

If you look at the mimedefang.pl source, you'll see it moves the site_lib
directory to the beginning of @INC with a "use lib" directive.

So install your MIME::Base64 module in site_lib and you should be OK...

... UNLESS you build an RPM with MIME::Base64 in site_lib, in which
case the *#&$*#$& RPM dependency mechanism still gets all upset and
tries to downgrade you.

Regards,

David.



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