yum based install

[Randal, Phil]

Any chance of adding a page to the Wiki detailing which pre-requisites
you can get from rpmforge and how to get them?

Preferably assuming that the person installing MailScanner has no prior
knowledge of rpmforge.

Cheers,

Phil
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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 Hugo van der Kooij
> Sent: 24 May 2007 11:16
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: yum based install
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems rpmforge will have (or does have by now ;-) a 
> perl-Filesys-Df 
> package.
> 
> So the only thing one would need to use yum to install MS would be a 
> repository with the mailscanner RPM in then for the usual distro's.
> 
> There is an issue however that needs to be addressed in the 
> MS rpm file to 
> make it work. There is no dependency for perl-Filesys-Df in 
> the MS RPM. I 
> noticed the dependency only when I started MS that it needed 
> Filesys/Df.pm 
> to run.
> 
> I understand Julian is no fan of packagers adding MS to their 
> repositories. If keeping it up-to-date and getting some usage 
> figures is 
> the main issue then I think it would be almost trivial to setup a 
> repository so yum can fetch MS from the right site and Julian 
> will still 
> have an up-to-date repository and the download statistics.
> 
> Hugo.
> 
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