Problems installing Mailscanner

[Julian Field]

At 08:15 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I started looking at Mailscanner recently. I have tried to install both
>4.01-3 and 4.01-5 but I am either doing something wrong or missing something.
>
>My environment is RedHat 7.2 with most recent patches. I downloaded the
>tar files, unpacked it. After that I tried to run the install.sh script
>which gives messages like:
>
>[root at splx001 MailScanner-4.01-5]# ./install.sh | more
>
>Rebuilding all the Perl RPMs for your version of Perl
>
>Missing file /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/perl-IO-stringy-2.108-1.noarch.rpm.
>Maybe it did not build correctly?
>
>Missing file /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-1.i386.rpm.
>Maybe it did not build correctly?
>
>Missing file /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/perl-TimeDate-1.1301-2.noarch.rpm.
>Maybe it did not build correctly?
>
>I am probably doing something wrong. /usr/src exist but no subdirectories
>underneath it. The directory I unpacked the tar file in is:
>/home/spiroe/MailScanner-4.01-5

What did you do with the /usr/src/redhat tree? It comes as part of the
"rpm-build" rpm in case you haven't got that installed. I never realised it
was possible to *not* install that one :-)

>When I try to rebuild one of the files manually I get:
>[root at splx001 MailScanner-4.01-5]# /bin/rpm --rebuild
>/home/spiroe/MailScanner-4.01-5/perl-IO-stringy-2.108-1.src.rpm
>/home/spiroe/MailScanner-4.01-5/perl-IO-stringy-2.108-1.src.rpm: No such
>file or directory
>
>Can somebody point me into the right direction?

Assuming you are in the dir /home/spiroe/MailScanner-4.01-5, then just
         rpm --rebuild perl-IO-stringy*src.rpm
should be able to work, as that file should be in the dir you are in.
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