Updating the "Mailscanner" port

[Johan Hendriks]

>> Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> >> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> >>    
>> >>> On Mon, March 30, 2009 9:49 pm, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> >>>  
>> >>>      
>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:04:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> >>>>    
>> >>>>        
>> >>>>> 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.
>> >  
>> >>>>>      
>> >>>>>          
>> >>>> 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 :-)
>> >>>>    
>> >>>>        
>> >>> 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=137747
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks.
>> >>>
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> >> I noticed a couple of things here. The 4.78.9 version is still listed
>> >>    
>> > as
>> >  
>> >> Beta according to the MailScanner site, though the site may just not
>> >> have updated yet. Second, the patch submitted forces perl 5.10+ as a
>> >> requirement. I've seen nothing on the MailScanner site that says that
>> >> 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
>> >> something to be done lightly, I was wondering what issues people were
>> >> 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

>> >  
>> I do remember seeing these problems reported, but for the life of me, I
>> can not reproduce them. I use 5.8.9 in production, and get 20 to 40
>> thousand messages a day scanned without a problem. I am setting up a new
>> server, and I will try 5.10 on that and see how things go.
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>This is most likely the common problem. ports/UPDATING states:
>20090113:
>  AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8
>  AUTHOR: skv at FreeBSD.org

>  lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.9.  You should update everything
>  that depends on perl.  The easiest way to do that is to use
>  perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8.  Please see its
>  manual page for details.

>Please check UPDATING after to follow up on any other updates for perl that you might have to perform.

>This explains why going back to 5.8.8 works for you.

>Best regards.

--
>Jason J. Hellenthal
>+1.616.403.8065
j>asonh at DataIX.net

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