[PLUG] Upgrading CPAN

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 19 14:52:19 UTC 2006


On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Dave wrote:

> Last I checked, BerkleyDB (as in DB_File) was part of the core perl
> distribution.  It Just Works(tm).  You may be missing the actualy
> libraries that handle the db interactions (as in, not perl stuff), so the
> API fails...

Dave,

   Perhaps. Nothing else complains. :-)

> Mail::SPF::Query I've no real experience with, but a good starting point
> is what particular error message you're getting.  CPAN sometimes doesn't
> handle dependencies well.  If you're getting an error message like "Can't
> Locate Foo/Bar.pm in @INC (@INC contains.....)" message, you need to
> install the Foo::Bar module.

   With a couple of modules, CPAN found missing dependencies, asked about
installing them, then did so when I pressed [Enter]. The problem was a
failed test.

   I grabbed the tarball for Mail::SPF::Query and built/installed it
manually. Now that I have Christian Monk's 'selective-greylist' correctly
installed (the web page is a bit ambiguous, but I'll provide him with
suggested changes to make it more clear), it should be working properly.

   I suppose the next step is to install gocr and the SA addon that looks at
attached images for the same spam signatures it looks for in the textual
part of the message.

   The folks who are so very clever to create these tools have my greatest
respect and thanks. My expertise and abilites are in completely different
subject areas so I appreciate what they provide to keep us free from the
*(&@#$ spammers.

Rich

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