Yum/RPM install

[Julian Field]

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In which case I don't need to do anything.

Gareth wrote:
> 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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>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [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.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>> [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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>> Jules
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