F8: CPAN problem

[François Cami]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:47:09 -0800
Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:

> On 01/25/2010 04:25 PM, Scott Beamer wrote:
> > Dan Thurman spake thusly:
> >   
> >> To make a long story short, I was trying to get procmail support added
> >> to my sendmail base in order to get maildir (instead of mbox)....
> >>     
> > IS that "F8" as in "Fedora 8"?
> >
> > Fedora 8 is no longer supported......
> >   
> Yes, I know, but it will apply to later versions.  I am trying to
> clean out "activation" of the CPAN method stuff which broke.
> Maybe there is no harm there, but I am not certain.
> 
> So, if anyone has any suggestions or ideas what I can
> try, I am all ears! :D

I would start by finding and reinstalling all corrupted Perl CPAN RPMs.
`rpm -qVa perl*` is your friend.
Then, there might be a local db containing CPAN metadata, you'd need
to clean up that as well.

Installing Fedora 12 over, at this point, might be a faster solution :)

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