on a machine with db-4.0.14 emerging Spam-Assassin requires dev-perl/DB_File-1.803 as dependancy which itself depend on db-3.2.x proposed solution: use DB_File-1.806 instead which should be db4-safe (cpan> make test DB_File works fine) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This problem seems to be critical because after the upgrade spamassassin damages filtered email that is piped through it (empty bodies and mostly empty headers).
>This problem seems to be critical because after the upgrade spamassassin damages >filtered email that is piped through it (empty bodies and mostly empty headers). oops...didn't noticed this. i'll do more tests on it tonight
I tried unmerging DB_File and using: cpan> install DB_File since the ebuild one gave me some "undefined symbol" errors. I then tried the resulting installation and it works for me without damaging bodies and headers. i'm doing some more tests :) HTH alessandro
just a question: why Mail-SpamAssassin depends on DB_File since the perl 5.8.x ebuild already installs it (please also note that perl-5.8.x.ebuild installs version 1.806, which is the right one) ?!? so wouldn't it better to remove the dep in the DB_File ebuild? i might be wrong...please illuminate me :) alessandro
I need to check if I can also install the new version of DB_File or if it is still masked. If I can, I will additionally try to find out if SpamAssassin still messes up filtered mails. Christian
I have checked, the latest unmasked version of DB_Perl in the portage tree is 1.803-r2. If perl 5.8.0 already installs DB_Perl 1.806 itself, I agree with you that this dependency should either vanish from perl's ebuild or DB_Perl's ebuild should be upgraded to use 1.806. Christian
I think that after emerging SpamAssassin one should definitely re-emerge dev-lang/perl. That should fix the problem momentarily. But of course it's only a workaround. Christian
Nope, problem is still there. But I saw that today the SpamAssassin version was downgraded to 2.55 again due to the fact that it modified mails that were pipe through it in version 2.60. Christian
SpamAssasin 2.60 works for me now, with DB_File-1.803-r2.
