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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up - Perl upgrade borked spamassassin & fix, but still curious
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:22:16
Message-Id: 20041206092158.7765ffff@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Heads up - Perl upgrade borked spamassassin & fix, but still curious by Nick Rout
1 On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:56:43 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
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3 > This morning a perl upgrade from (5.8.4-r1 to 5.8.5-r2) borked
4 > spamassassin for me. There was a complaint from spamassassin and from
5 > sa-learn about not being able to find module HTML/Parser.pm
6 >
7 > The solution was to re-emerge HTML-Parser, a perl module. That seemed
8 > to put it in a place where the new perl install could find it.
9
10 I don't use Spam Assassin, but saw similar behaviour with other packages
11 when upgrading to perl 5.8.6. To ensure it didn't happen again, I
12 re-emerged all Perl modules with
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14 emerge --oneshot -av $(qpkg -g dev-perl -I -nc)
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16 You may need to merge one or two modules manually if you get dependency
17 errors during this.
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19 I'm sure there must be a better, and less kludgy, way of dealing with
20 this, but at least it got things working again.
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24 Neil Bothwick
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26 Top Oxymorons Number 34: Silent scream