On 15 Dec 2003 12:19:38 +0200, era wrote > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:01:10 -0600, Mike Vanecek
>> I ran into this installing 2.61. I just did a --force to get around >> it, but wondered if that was a safe approach? What is the purpose >> of perllocal.pod and why does perl-Mail-SpamAssassin have a >> problem with the existing one? > The only hit for perllocal.pod I could find in Bugzilla was bug #1099 > and that's only because it contains long snippets of the Makefile. Same here. > Anyway, I googled around a bit and inferred that perllocal.pod > contains a list of locally installed packages. Dunno exactly what > mechanism it uses to produce this but I imagine that mixing CPAN with > another package management tool without properly integrating this > mechanism into $other_pkg_tool would lead to this sort of result. Everything installed was done via rpms (SA 2.61 & Text::Iconv). > Here's a tangentially related Debian bug report: > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/debian-boot-200009/msg00422.html> > > My Debian stable system doesn't have this file (Perl 5.6.1-8.2) so > I'd guess it's a 5.8.x thing. OTOH I never install directly from > CPAN (but use dh-make-perl to create my own .deb from a CPAN module). Or a Redhat thingy - this is on RH 9. Not really sure sa tools needs to include that file in its distro. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
