ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

At 01:49 06/10/2002, you wrote:
>Oops...hit Send too soon.  Based on the above, I'd guess it is about
>equivalent to RH 6.x since the installed version of perl is 5.005_03 and
>the kernel is 2.2.16

RedHat haven't impressed me with this problem. The net result of me
packaging V4 in way they approve of is that it is a real pain to install on
non-RedHat systems. The RH7 version depends on perl 5.6.1 and the RH8
version depends on perl 5.8.

My previous packaging was independent of the version of Perl that was
installed.
Until I get this problem sorted properly, you will have to install the
HTML-Parser and HTML-Tagset modules yourself then either force the
installation of the MailScanner V4 RPM using a command like
         "rpm -Uvh --force blahblah.rpm"
or just use the MailScanner V4 tar distribution and carry on using
/opt/MailScanner for the installation.

Sorry, this looks like I need to go from 2 distributions (tar and
distro-independent RPM) to at least 4 (tar, RedHat 7, RedHat 8 and
distro-independent RPM). And all to keep the nice guys at RedHat happy...

This is going to be a real pain to do, and to keep all the files up to date
with each other. Having things like 4 different versions of the init.d
script doesn't exactly make life very easy. As for testing all 4 distros,
who knows?
  :(

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Matt
>Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:32 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released
>
>
> > There are also the first versions of RPMs for RedHat 7.x and for
> > RedHat 8.x. Please be sure to use the right set, they won't install
> > (due to lack of dependencies) if you use the wrong ones. If you aren't
>
> > using RedHat, then I suggest you try the RedHat 7.x set first as that
> > doesn't require Perl 5.8.
>
>What version of Redhat does a Cobalt Raq4i have?
>
>Matt

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