[rt-users] Perl needed for 3.0.7 to 3.0.9 upgrade - FreeBSD - attachment corruption fixed?

[Chris Ridd]

On 3/4/04 10:10 pm, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:

> Jim Rowan wrote:
> 
>>> 2) If I updated perl to 5.8.2 (or left at 5.8.1) and updated to RT
>>>    
>>> 
>> 3.0.9
>>  
>> 
>>> would the attachment corruption problems be fixed?
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> My understanding of the wisdom is that this is a *perl* problem, and it
>> won't go away until you upgrade perl.  I don't know for sure if 5.8.2 is
>> good enough; I think it is not.
>>  
>> 
> 
> 
> There's a PR floating around that has a patch to the perl5.8 port to
> update it to 5.8.3
> (I don't know the number off-hand)
> 
> It's a bit older and I don't know if it applies to today's perl5.8-port
> anymore.
> One could mail the author of the patch and ask about an update, if required.

I'd be *really* tempted to install a local copy of whatever perl RT wants in
the RT installation tree, instead of trying to bring the system's perl up to
RT's spec.

It's a horrible thing to do in a number of ways, but it *does* make life
with RT a *lot* simpler.

Cheers,

Chris