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From: Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com>
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 04:04:13
Message-Id: 200412060403.43225.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Heads up - Perl upgrade borked spamassassin & fix, but still curious by Nick Rout
1 On Monday 06 December 2004 01:56, Nick Rout wrote:
2 > This morning a perl upgrade from (5.8.4-r1 to 5.8.5-r2) borked
3 > spamassassin for me. There was a complaint from spamassassin and
4 > from sa-learn about not being able to find module HTML/Parser.pm
5 >
6 > The solution was to re-emerge HTML-Parser, a perl module. That
7 > seemed to put it in a place where the new perl install could find
8 > it.
9 >
10 > Strangely I have had perl upgrades in the past that have not had
11 > this problem. I'm therefore posting for two reasons
12 >
13 > 1. a heads up for those that might have a similar problem; and
14 >
15 > 2. to see if anyone can cast any light on why this may have
16 > happenned.
17 >
18 > Error message from runing sa-learn :
19 >
20 I found problems with sa-learn too after the update. I remerged
21 spamassassin to fix it. Then, to make sure, I ran
22 `/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/libperl_rebuilder` - that took
23 ages and remerged all sorts of crap; I had to unmask or remove a
24 lot of stuff.
25
26 It's annoying, but I suppose it's what we have to put up with after
27 moving from a "real distribution".
28
29 --
30 Peter
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