Gentoo and MailScanner?

[Remco Barendse]

I don't want to start a distro war but AFAIK a new Fedora version is
released every couple of months which means they stop supporting the
previous version. Then you are left in the cold for security updates or
you have to do it all by hand or alternatively do a re-install on your
production servers every couple of months.

Am not very comfortable with any of the above. I could go for a quality
RHEL rebuild like taolinux.org but the computing speed and feature updates
of Gentoo are very tempting :)

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Shoval Tomer wrote:

> A. you can install MailScanner from the source.
> B. fedora core (and maybe RH9) has yum and up2date that can be used for
> updating in the same manner.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Remco Barendse [mailto:mailscanner at BARENDSE.TO]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:43 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Gentoo and MailScanner?
> >
> > I will probably be replacing my RedHat installed base systems with
> Gentoo.
> >
> > I looked through the Gentoo forum but there is not much to be found
> about
> > MailScanner to my surprise.
> >
> > Is anyone running MailScanner on Gentoo and are there any pitfalls?
> >
> > Gentoo seems like the perfect distro to me because the full distro can
> be
> > updated continuously without a complete re-install or you can do just
> > security updates thereby keeping the system stable.
> >
> > The rpm of MailScanner includes some custom perl modules with the
> distro,
> > obviously those patched versions must be installed on the Gentoo
> system
> > too.
> >
> > Any input greatly appreciated, maybe we can even get MailScanner
> included
> > in the portage tree :)
> >
> > --
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> > believed to be clean.
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>