MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.64.3 released

[Julian Field]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 10/3/2007 12:38 PM Scott Silva spake the following:
>> on 10/2/2007 4:30 AM Julian Field spake the following:
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>>> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Julian Field wrote:
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>>>>> Many thanks for all your work on Blastwave. We are already using 
>>>>> it here
>>>>> on some of our web servers, and it has proved to be very useful and
>>>>> timesaving. Thank you!
>>>> Jules,
>>>>
>>>> May I take from your praise that you are not against MailScanner 
>>>> being added to a repository?
>>>>
>>>> I think Dag Wiers will be glad to add MailScanner to rpmforge so 
>>>> you have no worries about setting up a YUM repositor. It will allow 
>>>> everyone to do what they do best.
>>> I initially always said no to requests like this, as I liked to keep 
>>> a close eye on download stats (hence my 1 million downloads figure). 
>>> However, MailScanner is getting into more and more distros now, so 
>>> the website download stats no longer represent the number of sites 
>>> using MailScanner in any meaningful way.
>>>
>>> So there's not much point in saying no any more, I've lost control 
>>> anyway. So I would be most pleased if Dag would like to add it to 
>>> his repository. If there's anything reasonable that he needs me to 
>>> do in return, I'll do what I can.
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
>> You might need to sign your rpm to show validity, or Dag could sign 
>> it with his key.
>> I just tried a yum localinstall with the mailscanner rpm and rpmforge 
>> enabled  "just to see" and yum complains that the rpm is unsigned.
>>
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> And also make sure all the requires are in the spec. I wanted to 
> install on this server with no build environment, but I have a 
> deadline and gave in and ran install.sh...
That's where life gets awkward. MailScanner often has to put up with 
older versions of some Perl modules as some of the RPM installs will 
fail on many systems due to clashes with the perl RPM itself. So you 
can't match version numbers reliably at all. You can add the existence 
of the Perl modules okay, but no more than that.

I'm sure Dag will have plenty to say on building the RPM so he may well 
want to build the RPM himself, so he would end up signing it.

Jules

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