Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:57:52 -0400 From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Updating the "Mailscanner" port Message-ID: <41afa6a0e615758e8211d63f73edcffe.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB0111BB@w2003s01.double-l.local> References: <20090325090758.1015bc2a@scorpio><20090326100430.GI56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org><20090331014900.GA24235@lonesome.com><1f8447334a4d96d2edfc74608d16f794.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org><4A855E0C.3090805@skylinecorp.com><57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DEAEE@w2003s01.double-l.local><4A858035.80107@skylinecorp.com> <20090814115210.97a614b2.jasonh@DataIX.net> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB0111BB@w2003s01.double-l.local>
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On Fri, August 14, 2009 2:53 pm, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Well i can assure you that that was not the case. > I did test it by going to 5.10, which worked, do all the things in > /usr/ports/UPDATING. > Then going back to 5.8.9, it did not work. > Going back to 5.8.8 it did work. > > I also did fresh installs on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x with the new perl 5.8.9 > at that time and MailScanner refused to work. > 5.8.9. just did not work! > > here is the thread off that on the ports list > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-February/052959.html > I got an answer from someone who also had the same issue on a clean > install. > > So let MailScanner depend on 5.10.x is not a so bad in my opinion. > And if it is just a mailscanner server the update from 5.8.x to 5.10.x is > not so bad to do. > I did it on all my systems and not one did fail. approx 20 with FreeBSD > 6.x, 7.x and 8-CURRENT at that time I have managed to install and run this port on a fresh install of FreeBSD and Perl 5.9. However i am still unable to use it on some of my production servers. Some condition seems to trigger this problem when upgrading Perl 5.8.8 to 5.8.9. I am not sure what it is at this time. Since it works for someone people i have taken out the explicit dependency on Perl 5.10 and have instead added an note on this problem.
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