Getting SpamAssassin installation could not be found error

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 3 17:46:29 GMT 2004


At 17:33 03/02/2004, you wrote:
>Ok I solved my own problem
>perl-mail-spamassassin-2.63-1.i386.rpm
>installs in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail
>I had to copy the files in there to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail
>
>Restarted MailScanner and it worked!
>
>
>Why don't these rpms intelligently figure out what the latest version of
>Perl is on the machine and install Spamassassin Perl Mail stuff into the
>correct folder?  Uhhggg

That's only possible if you rebuild the RPM from the SRPM on your machine,
then install your shiny new RPM.

You now have a system that isn't consistent with its own RPM database. :-(
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