Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:59:07 +0200 From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl> To: "Kevin Kobb" <kkobb@skylinecorp.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Updating the "Mailscanner" port Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DEAEE@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>
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>Mike Jakubik wrote: >> On Mon, March 30, 2009 9:49 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: >> =20 >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:04:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> =20 >>>> If the existing maintainer has disappeared, one option would be for >>>> you to take over maintainership: Upgrade mailscanner yourself and >>>> submit the upgrade as a PR that also transfers maintainership to >>>> youself. If there's no response after about 2 weeks, the port is yours. >>>> =20 >>> Actually, there is a 2-week timeout on updates, but a 3-month timeout >>> on maintainer inactivity for transferring maintainership. Vacations >>> can last more than 2 weeks :-) >>> =20 >> >> I've just submitted a patch that updates this port to the latest version, >> perhaps we can squeeze it in before the freeze. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D137747 >> >> Thanks. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> =20 >I noticed a couple of things here. The 4.78.9 version is still listed as=20 >Beta according to the MailScanner site, though the site may just not=20 >have updated yet. Second, the patch submitted forces perl 5.10+ as a=20 >requirement. I've seen nothing on the MailScanner site that says that=20 >this is a requirement, and have had no problems myself using any of the >Beta versions with perl 5.8.9_3. Given that upgrading perl is not=20 >something to be done lightly, I was wondering what issues people were=20 >seeing that 5.10 fixed. > >Thanks I am running quit a few Mailscanner servers, and they all failed under perl 5.8.9 This was on FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x and 8-Current that time, when i switched to 5.10.x or back to 5.8.8 my problems went away. if you google on FreeBSD perl 5.8.9 and mailscanner there are a lot of people reporting issues. Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com=20 Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.55/2301 - Release Date: 08/13/09 18:16:00
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