[users] ImapSync Dependency MisMatch

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, John Thomas wrote:

> John Thomas wrote:
>> Based on the following, and my scant knowledge, I have concluded the 
>> imapsync spec should have a dependency for perl-mail-imapclient that is 
>> 2.2.9.  However, rpmforge has 3.05.
>> 
>> First, a Freshmeat link in case that is of interest:
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/
>> 
>> [root at mail-backup bin]# imapsync
>> Subroutine Authuser redefined at /usr/bin/imapsync line 1870.
>> imapsync needs perl lib Mail::IMAPClient release 2.2.9 exactly, future 
>> imapsync release may suppoort 3.0.x, but sorry not now
>> # Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
>> [root at mail-home bin]# yum list 'perl-mail-imap*'
>> Setting up repositories
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> Reducing CentOS.Karan.Org-EL4 - Stable to included packages only
>> Finished
>> Excluding Packages from CentOS-4 - Base
>> Finished
>> Installed Packages
>> perl-Mail-IMAPClient.noarch              3.05-1.el4.rf          installed
>
> FYI, I removed  perl-Mail-IMAPClient.noarch 3.05-1.el4.rf
> and installed
> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-Mail-IMAPClient/perl-Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm
> then imapsync worked fine.
>
> It seems IMAPSYNC should have a dependency on perl-Mail-IMAPClient 2.2.9 
> despite the 3.05 in the repository.

Sadly, reality is not as clear-cut. We can take temporary actions, or fix 
the incompatibility problem in imapsync and I prefer to take the latter 
action. I am sure the imapsync developers already know about the problem, 
and may even have a fix for it already ?

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