On 4/24/06, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Leonard Isham wrote: > > > 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. > > > > An apology to Dag. I assumed that the goal was to move everyone to > > RPMForge, and I was late in making the trasition. > > No apology needed, but I hate to get late feedback like this. If you have > a problem, report it ! > > Every report that says something like "I have seen that as well and I > fixed it by doing..." is frustrating because I could have fixed it as well > and the problem would be there anymore in the first place for anyone. > > I understand that if you have a problem and you need to get forward, you > fix it first. That's normal. But if it is fixed, report it. The reason why > you only got that problem, was because other people have been nice and > reported other problems that you didn't have to deal with anylonger. > > The reason why Linux even works is because other people made it work and > took the time to report problems and fix things. So not having the time to > report something, while obviously having the time to reply on the > mailinglist for the very same issue is frustrating :) > > BTW RPMforge == Dag if you're using EL3 or EL4, there is no difference. > The aim with RPMforge is to try and make people help a project instead of > an individual, but apparently it is not working very well :/ > I for one am grateful for what you, all of the repository maintainers, do. Since I use a few repositories, and I know if I break it I get to keep the pieces. I assumed it was not specific to your repository at the time I was trouleshooting it. I then moved to RPMForge and later realized that it didn't happen anymore... -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.