Upgrade SA

[Scott Silva]

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Scott Silva spake the following on 6/28/2005 11:02 AM:
> Christian Campbell spake the following on 6/28/2005 10:37 AM:
> 
>>I looked through the Wiki, MAQs and FAQs and didn't come up with much.
>>Looking for info on Upgrading SA from 2.63.  It was built from source.
>>However, I seem to have a spamassassin-tools-2.55-rh8.1 installed also.
>>
>>1st - Do I still need spamassassin-tools?  Can I remove that package?
>>2nd - Can I do:
>> 
>>perl -MCPAN -eshell
>>install Mail::SpamAssassin
>>
>>to upgrade SA?
>>
>>Running on:
>>Linux atlas.brueggers.com 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686
>>i386 GNU/Linux
>>This is Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
>>This is Perl version 5.008000 (5.8.0)
>>
>>This is MailScanner version 4.42.9
>>Module versions are:
>>1.14    Archive::Zip
>>1.01    Carp
>>1.119   Convert::BinHex
>>1.00    DirHandle
>>1.04    Fcntl
>>2.71    File::Basename
>>2.05    File::Copy
>>2.01    FileHandle
>>1.05    File::Path
>>0.13    File::Temp
>>1.29    HTML::Entities
>>3.45    HTML::Parser
>>2.30    HTML::TokeParser
>>1.20    IO
>>1.09    IO::File
>>1.122   IO::Pipe
>>1.50    Mail::Header
>>3.05    MIME::Base64
>>5.417   MIME::Decoder
>>5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
>>5.417   MIME::Head
>>5.417   MIME::Parser
>>3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
>>5.417   MIME::Tools
>>0.10    Net::CIDR
>>1.05    POSIX
>>1.75    Socket
>>0.03    Sys::Syslog
>>1.02    Time::localtime
>>
>>Optional module versions are:
>>1.806   DB_File
>>1.00    Digest
>>1.01    Digest::HMAC
>>2.20    Digest::MD5
>>2.01    Digest::SHA1
>>missing Inline
>>missing Mail::ClamAV
>>2.63    Mail::SpamAssassin
>>missing Mail::SPF::Query
>>missing Net::CIDR::Lite
>>0.23    Net::DNS
>>missing Net::LDAP
>>missing Parse::RecDescent
>>missing SAVI
>>missing Sys::Hostname::Long
>>2.26    Test::Harness
>>0.47    Test::Simple
>>1.89    Text::Balanced
>>1.30    URI
>>
>> Any help and/or walk-throughs appreciated!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Christian
>>
> 
> Kill all the old spamassassin rpms first.
> If you want an easy fix for spamassassin and want to add ClamAV, Julian
> has a package to add both, and their dependencies.
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/install-Clam-SA.tar.gz
> 
> 
You also need to do some upgrade work to your bayes database.
http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/UPGRADE
And if you are using any custom rules, you will need to check for 3.0
versions of them.

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