Dhaval Patel wrote:
I am running a Debian stable system and have perl 5.8.4 installed from the
Debian packages.
I had a problem with the Net::DNS module a while back and upgrade perl to 5.8.8
using
CPAN. This upgrade installed perl 5.8.8 as the default perl version system wide.
Unfortunately Debconf is not part of CPAN, so I cannot install it in 5.8.8.
Because of
this, certain Debian utilities will not work.
Is there anyway to tell spamc to use perl 5.8.8 and leave the rest of the
system to use
the Debian 5.8.4?
Both versions are currently on the system. /usr/bin has perl5.8.4 and perl5.8.8
binaries. Currently /usr/bin/perl is the 5.8.8 binary for spamassassin.
Will changing the top line of /usr/bin/spamassassin be all that is needed for
spamc?
spamc couldn't care less what version of Perl is on your system since
it's written in C.
All the other programs that ship with SA (spamassassin, spamd,
sa-update, etc) are written in Perl. If you want those programs to use
a different perl (and I would suggest they all use the same perl), yeah,
you can change the shebang line to point at a different perl.
Daryl
