After installing amavisd-new 2.3.3-r2 the daemon fails to starting giving the following error: postfix # /etc/init.d/amavisd start * Starting amavisd-new ... ERROR: MISSING REQUIRED BASIC MODULES: Unix::Syslog BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 148. [ !! ] That can be fixed by including Unix-Syslog as a dependency. But after adding that, also amavisd daemon fails due to another perl module missing, this time Convert-UUlib with the following message: Problem in the Amavis::Unpackers code: Can't locate Convert/UUlib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at (eval 57) line 17. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 57) line 17. [ !! ] Since amavisd fails to run unless both Unix-Syslog and Convert-UUlib perl modules are installed, they should be included as dependency of the ebuild. This will probably affect other amavisd ebuild versions.
Also I would like to specify that it was a new install. Amavisd was installed for the first time on the system. Also, here is my emerge --info -------------------------------------- Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-slock12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-slock12 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm authdaemond avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cgi chroot ck-server clamav clamd cli crypt dri eds emboss encode erandom esd fastbuild foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hardened hardenedphp idn imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog javascript jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix pppd python quicktime readline reflection sasl session spell spl sse ssl symlink tcpd threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vda vhosts vorbis xml xv zlib elibc_glibc userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
You apparently need to run perl-cleaner, the dependencies are there.
the dependencies are listed in the RDEPEND section, but are not installed.
