F8: CPAN problem

[Sam Sharpe]

2010/1/26 Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com>:
> 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

Did you try finding ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm?

On my (nicely up to date and fully supported ;o) F12, it is provided
by this RPM:

[sam at samlap ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.36-87.fc12.x86_64

Try (forcibly if necessary) reinstalling the following:

http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/updates/8/i386.newkey/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30-41.fc8.i386.rpm

Then retry CPAN and see what happens. It's usually just a case of
tracking what's missing until you get the initial startup to
succeed...

Also, can I ask what howto you were following for Sendmail/Procmail -
it may help to give context to the problem.

--
Sam