Yum/RPM install

[Gareth]

Yes it full RPMs that I disaprove of as you mentioned. As far as using SRPMs
I dont mind either way. Whether it be SRPM or a pure tarball the perl
modules get installed and compiled from source so it makes little difference
in my mind.


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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Julian
> Field
> Sent: 13 August 2007 19:27
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Yum/RPM install
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> You say "with source" near the end of your comment. Do you mean "with
> builds from source (i.e. same as installing via CPAN)" or do you mean
> "with SRPMs"?
>
> Any RPM-based distro of ClamAV+SA I did would involve SRPMs for all the
> Perl stuff anyway, I refuse to distribute RPMs of Perl modules as they
> make no sense for exactly the reasons you have described.
>
> Gareth wrote:
> > You also have to build rpms for the packages that redhat wont upgrade
> > aswell. For example I run FC6 but the latest spamassassin
> available through
> > yum is 3.1.9 since 3.2 is a new major version.
> > For situations like this you want to either maintain your own
> specific rpm
> > repository or do it via source.
> > Given the variety of playforms and the age of some of the systems there
> > would have to be multiple rpm versions to cater for different library
> > versions that people use for example. With source Julian only
> needs to worry
> > about one version and since it is compiled it is optimised for
> the hardware
> > it is running on.
> >
> >
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> >> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Nathan
> >> Olson
> >> Sent: 13 August 2007 18:06
> >> To: MailScanner discussion
> >> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Yum/RPM install
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> >>
> >> We build RPMs for MailScanner and all it's prerequisites.
> >> It works fine if you're patient enough to build and maintain them.
> >> We only need to build the ones that RedHat doesn't provide already.
> >>
> >> Nate
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