CentOS - Jan 2007 - http://www.net-dns.org/ and perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1 upgrade direction needed

Greetings   :-)

On this particular production centos 4 mail server system if I 

rpm -qa | grep perl

I get...

perl-Filter-1.30-6
newt-perl-1.08-7
perl-DateManip-5.42a-3
perl-libwww-perl-5.79-5
perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-26
perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-3
perl-URI-1.30-4
mod_perl-1.99_16-4.centos4
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-30
perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-32
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-5
perl-XML-Dumper-0.71-2
perl-libxml-enno-1.02-31
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-5
perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1         <------------- ****
perl-DBI-1.40-8
perl-HTML-Parser-3.35-6
perl-libxml-perl-0.07-30
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-13
perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4

right now I am focusing on perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1

and I want to figure out how to migrate to the latest version of Net::DNS on
the

http://www.net-dns.org/

website or learn if .59 has been rolled into the upstream and therefore to
centos 4 or ???

i ask this as I am leary of upgrading production centos servers via CPAN

I am looking to list wisdom to get some direction to help solve this one
first please.

I have researched the basics yet if I may please get a little help to
continue going in the right direction I would be most grateful.

I am sure I will want to add or upgrade some of the others as well.

Ummm much of this is in relation to Spamassassin 3.1.7 issues

Please chime in on creating a new RPM or using CPAN and any other ways that
you folks are dealing with this pleasae?

Thank you and kind regards

 - rh

--
Robert - Abba Communications
   Computer & Internet Services
 (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

On Wed, January 17, 2007 5:44 pm, R Lists06 wrote:
>
> Greetings   :-)
>
> On this particular production centos 4 mail server system if I
>
> rpm -qa | grep perl
>
> I get...
>
> perl-Filter-1.30-6
> newt-perl-1.08-7
> perl-DateManip-5.42a-3
> perl-libwww-perl-5.79-5
> perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-26
> perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-3
> perl-URI-1.30-4
> mod_perl-1.99_16-4.centos4
> perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-30
> perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-32
> perl-XML-Parser-2.34-5
> perl-XML-Dumper-0.71-2
> perl-libxml-enno-1.02-31
> perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-5
> perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1         <------------- ****
> perl-DBI-1.40-8
> perl-HTML-Parser-3.35-6
> perl-libxml-perl-0.07-30
> perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-13
> perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4
>
> right now I am focusing on perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1
>
> and I want to figure out how to migrate to the latest version of Net::DNS
> on
> the
>
> http://www.net-dns.org/
>
> website or learn if .59 has been rolled into the upstream and therefore to
> centos 4 or ???
>
> i ask this as I am leary of upgrading production centos servers via CPAN
>
> I am looking to list wisdom to get some direction to help solve this one
> first please.
>
> I have researched the basics yet if I may please get a little help to
> continue going in the right direction I would be most grateful.
>
> I am sure I will want to add or upgrade some of the others as well.
>
> Ummm much of this is in relation to Spamassassin 3.1.7 issues
>
> Please chime in on creating a new RPM or using CPAN and any other ways
> that
> you folks are dealing with this pleasae?
>
> Thank you and kind regards
>
>  - rh
>
> --
> Robert - Abba Communications
>    Computer & Internet Services
>  (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net
>
type "perl -MCPAN -e shell"
Select no for manual configuration
type "install Net::DNS"

Net-DNS-0.59 is the version that is available via this method.

Cheers!

-- 
Matthew Martz
CentOS Mirror Admin
mdmartz at gflug.net

> Please chime in on creating a new RPM or using CPAN and any other ways that
> you folks are dealing with this pleasae?
.59 is available from the rpmforge repository. See
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories


-- 
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

R Lists06 wrote:
> i ask this as I am leary of upgrading production centos servers via CPAN
>
> I am looking to list wisdom to get some direction to help solve this one
> first please.
>   
Personally, I wouldn't be leery of upgrading Net::DNS via CPAN at all.  
It's probably
better than upgrading perl modules with yum or apt-get, since CPAN is 
pretty much
the authority on perl in general.

If you're really leery of using the CPAN shell, or want a more automated 
process, I'd
download the source tarball, verify that the manual installation method 
works, script
it, and then rsync the tarball/script, and do a over ssh to fire it off.

An example of a script I use to send around qmail aliases would be:

#!/bin/bash
# $Id: syncAliases,v 1.0 2006/11/08 15:18:00 peter Exp $
#
# Synchronize the /var/qmail/alias/aliases file after updates are made and
# rebuild the aliases.cdb from blade1.

cd /var/qmail/alias || exit 1
make all
MASTER=host1
HOSTS="host5 host6 host7 host8"
for h in $HOSTS ; do
scp /var/qmail/alias/aliases root@$h:/var/qmail/alias/aliases
ssh root@$h "cd /var/qmail/alias && make all"
done

Fire it off, pop in the passphraze twice, and let it rip.

For your application, I'd replace the /var/qmail/aliases with 
<full_path_to_source_tarball>,
make a script that runs on the local system after sending the file over, 
put a line that sends
it over before the tarball or after, and then change the execute line 
enclosed in doublequotes
to run that script.

As long as you verify everything works by testing before committing, 
there's no reason
you couldn't do 200 servers in not too much over an hour.  If you trust 
using empty passphraze
host keys (not really considered a good idea), then it could be finished 
in a half hour.

Peter

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