ports/160742: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin Install error

[Michael Scheidell]

The following reply was made to PR ports/160742; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Scheidell <scheidell at secnap.net>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>, <peter.fraser at atlasprotection.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/160742: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin Install error
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:12:00 -0400

 Thanks.  on complex problems, its best to totally document it so that if 
 we find a solution, others can search for help also.
 
 There is nothing specifically in any of the ports files for 
 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin that would break if you use Freebsd7.0, so I doubt 
 the problem is there.
 Also, since no one else has reported a problem, lets assume that it is 
 something unique to your installation, or version.
 
 First:
 make sure you have a totally clean ports, updated ports tree. (SA port 
 is up to 3.3.2_2 as of 2 weeks ago, so I know you are out of data)
 
 if you use cvsup, then cd /usr/ports and do a make update
 if you use portsnap, do a portsnap fetch update
 do a portsclean of old work files., portsclean -C  or if you don't have 
 that installed, rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work
 
 Check the version of perl you are using.  only perl version 5.8.8 or 
 above is supported by SA itself.
 if you upgraded perl, then review /usr/ports/UPDATING to make sure you 
 didn't take any shortcuts.  Upgrading perl is broken, always has been, 
 always will be.
 run perl-after-upgrade -f
 
 if none of this helps, you might try a 'greenfields' install of 7.0 
 (test computer or vm image, install clean 7.0 and try to install SA).
 If a clean install works, then you have a corrupted posts install 
 somewhere.  if a clean install still fails, than is most likely a change 
 in ports structure somewhere from freebsd 7.0 to 7.4
 
 Now:  since you are running an unsupported version of freebsd, you may 
 still have problems with the ports tree structure, and .mk include 
 files.  You may also have problems with any dependent files, libraries 
 or perl modules.  You only option is to upgrade to a supported version 
 of freebsd.
 
 Sorry I could not help further, you might be able to find  more here, 
 specifically, information about finding a older ports tree tagged
 <http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_eol.html>
 
 Good luck, and thanks for supporting Freebsd.
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