The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

Ladies and gentlemen,

We're going to be deploying Sympa on one of the Red Hat Enterprise  
Linux 4 rebuilds (specifically CentOS -- http://centos.org) and I was  
interested in finding out from the user community who run Sympa on  
similar systems what their experience has been with managing the Perl  
module requirements.

Right now I'm looking at using the Fedora Core 3 Extras rebuilt for  
CentOS by one of the core CentOS developers (http:// 
centos.karan.org/) along with some packages built locally for the  
ones that aren't in that repository.  One obstacle I've come across,  
however, is that due to the way Red Hat builds their Perl packages,  
MIME::Base64 cannot easily be upgraded and the version that comes  
with RHEL4 is too old for Sympa (v3.01 to be exact).  I'm wondering  
if using CPAN would be a better way to go and would love to hear pros  
and cons from people who've used it on a heavily package-managed  
system (e.g. RHEL, Fedora Core, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server).  I  
think this would make packaging Sympa a bit more difficult as modules  
installed via CPAN wouldn't be available to meet the Sympa package's  
dependencies, but I'm not sure how big of an issue that would be.

Thoughts?  Concerns?  Questions?  I'm anxious to hear how others have  
deployed Sympa on similar distributions or OSes.

Thanks,
Jeff