Yum/RPM install

[Randal, Phil]

Installing perl modules via CPAN can be a pain too.

I've taken a pragmatic approach here on our new MailScanner boxes, which
is to:

1: Use Julian's installers for ClamAV/SA and MailScanner

2: Install additional perl modules (e.g. perl-Mail-DKIM, etc) from the
rpmforge yum repository

So far I haven't had to use CPAN to install any required modules.  This
makes maintenance so much easier, and helps ensure that any security
vulnerabilites get dealt with in a timely manner (either via yum or
Julian's updated tarballs).

Cheers,

Phil

--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Gareth
> Sent: 13 August 2007 17:34
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Yum/RPM install
> 
> Managing perl modules would be a real pain as you would 
> practically have to
> install them as separate RPM's aswell. RPM has its own versioning and
> upgrade system which perl also has. Trying to mix them both 
> at the same time
> can cause lots of issues.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On 
> Behalf Of Peter
> > Nitschke
> > Sent: 13 August 2007 17:22
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: Yum/RPM install
> >
> >
> > There have been a few threads on the issue of making more use of
> > yum and or
> > RPM's to install MailScanner and SA/Clam-av, but none of 
> them seem to have
> > come to any real conclusion.
> >
> > Is there any real disadvantage to doing it all with RPM's 
> rather than
> > having all the modules compiled with each install or upgrade?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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