[SOLVED] CentOS is NOT supported

[SpEnTBoY]

Originally Posted by quanah

The issue occurs if you upgrade perl to something other than what shipped with your OS. So if you haven't upgraded perl, then you are just fine. I.e., it is not specifically that perl 5.8.8 is "bad". It just wasn't what was shipped with CentOS4. Since 5.8.8 is what ships with CentOS5, it should be just fine, assuming you are using the 5.8.8 that shipped.

--Quanah

I was running CentOS5 all stock and I still had to force rebuild/install Scalar::Util

perl -MCPAN -e shell
force install Scalar::Util

See THIS thread

ymmv and it might not be an issue in 5.0.1 but it was for 5.0 for me. All things considered, not much of an issue really

regards,
Lonny

[hughesjr]

That should only be a problem if you are using the RHEL4 version of zimbra on EL-5 (as it tries to use the PROVIDED perl modules that are designed for perl 5.8.5).

I am sure that there are scenarios where there might be some other issues, but they would evolve some kind of 3rd party repo perl installs or CPAN manual installs on CentOS5/RHEL5.

At least that is my experience with CentOS-5 or RHEL-5 and the FOSS GA install for RHEL-5.

Be expecting breakage if / when you update perl (if new versions are released later) as it will overwrite the CPAN Scalar::Util modules.

[SpEnTBoY]

Originally Posted by hughesjr

That should only be a problem if you are using the RHEL4 version of zimbra on EL-5 (as it tries to use the PROVIDED perl modules that are designed for perl 5.8.5).

I am sure that there are scenarios where there might be some other issues, but they would evolve some kind of 3rd party repo perl installs or CPAN manual installs on CentOS5/RHEL5.

At least that is my experience with CentOS-5 or RHEL-5 and the FOSS GA install for RHEL-5.

Be expecting breakage if / when you update perl (if new versions are released later) as it will overwrite the CPAN Scalar::Util modules.

Well I might be the exception but there are no extra packages on that machine (stock perl etc) and all I ever use to update it is the default yum repos shipped with CentOS5. Either way the rebuild was a non issue for Scalar::Util

# rpm -qa | grep perl-5 && perl -version
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2


This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Not saying it'll happen to everyone but just in case, what I had to do to get 5.0 GA FOSS to install was listed in my last post. The best advice has already been given I think ... make sure you have a backup and the rpm of the version you're already running, if anything goes pop for any reason it's a very simple recovery.

I actually did the recovery then found that post and tried the upgrade again and everything worked like a charm. This weekend is the 5.0.1 upgrade for me

[Costa-101]

I had this same problem when upgrading from 5.0.2 to 5.0.4 and had to remove perl-5.8.8-5.el4s1.

I ran:

rpm -e perl-5.8.8-5.el4s1 --nodeps

then:

yum install perl -y

Then run the installer/upgrader again.

Platform: Centos 4.[latest]
ZCS: 5.0.2_FOSS upgrading to 5.0.4_FOSS