[CentOS] dag repo and perl dependencies naming

Leonard Isham leonard.isham at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 22:16:11 UTC 2006


On 4/23/06, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Leonard Isham wrote:
>
> > On 4/20/06, sophana <sophana at zizi.ath.cx> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install amavisd-new from dag repo on centos3.
> > > In the spec file perl dependencies use parenthesis: perl(Digest::MD5)
> > > it also uses '-': perl-MailTools
> > >
> > > The problem is that only the second notation is available: perl-MD5
> > >
> > > I know this is an old problem. Is this only centos related?
> > > Is there a workaround?
> > >> > Do I have to modify the spec file? I'd like to use yum...
> > >
> >
> > I use amavisd-new as well.
> >
> > I ran into some Per modules missing when using Dag.  I switched to
> > using RPMForge, which is a merger of Dag, Dries, and maybe one or two
> > more.  Since then I have not had the problem.
>
> Next time, do us all a favor and report if something is not working.
>
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

An apology to Dag.  I assumed that the goal was to move everyone to
RPMForge, and I was late in making the trasition.

--
Leonard Isham, CISSP
Ostendo non ostento.



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