SpamAssassin 3.1.8

[Scott Silva]

Tony Stocker spake the following on 3/12/2007 10:17 AM:
> On 3/12/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>> You need to pick ONE method of installing this, and stick with it. If
>> you are
>> going to use the clam-sa package, use it every time and rpm -e
>> spamassassin.
>> If you are going to use the rpm's, you will need to manually go and
>> find /
>> delete the spamassassin installed by the clam-sa package.
>>
> Scott,
> 
> Okay, I removed the RH rpm of spamassassin, but this has the side
> effect of removing all of the SA rules in /usr/share/spamassassin.
> Since these rules are not recreated with the
> install-Clam-0.88.7-SA-3.1.8 package, I'm assuming that I have to get
> a spamassassin tarball in order to install them.  Correct?  Without
> these rules in place, I go back to the problem of no scoring.  I
> recovered the directory from backup, rather than reinstall the rpm,
> and it alleviated it.
> 
> Basically the current situation is this:
> * Installed install-Clam-0.88.7-SA-3.1.8
> * Removed RH rpm of spamassassin
> * Recovered /usr/share/spamassassin directory and contents
> * Status: Spam scoring working once again, as expected.
> 
> I just want to know for the future if I'll need to download and
> install a spamassassin tar file as well as the MailScanner Clam-SA tar
> file.
> 
> Thanks for all the help everybody.
> 
> Tony
You should always remove the rpm BEFORE installing with the clam-sa package.
Otherwise, you will get the effect you saw. RPM will remove all files it
thinks it installed. There is a newer tarball floating around with clam 0.90.1
if you want it.


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