building on Red Hat EL v 5

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Oct 17 18:09:20 IST 2007


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Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:32 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> Craig White wrote on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:30:11 -0700:
>>
>>> apparently new mailscanner is forcing the install of these
>>> items...
>> It's been doing this since long. Just install the mailscanner.rpm
>> by it's own with --nodeps and nothing else. I've asked several
>> times to just provide the mailscanner.rpm for updates
>> alternatively for those people who do not want to force all this
>> stuff on their PCs, but Jules doesn't listen. There's really no
>> reason that this stuff should get forced on most Linux
>> distributions. Also, version-specific dependencies are not
>> necessary.
> ---- that seems to not comport with my understanding as I think
> it's pretty clear that Jules listens.
>
> As for mailscanner only, the noarch source rpm is in the tarball
> and you could simply build that by itself and not execute
> install.sh so that is clearly a choice that one makes. I don't do
> things like --nodeps for obvious reasons.
>
> I was trying to feed back to Jules that the forced install of
> perl-Test-Simple and perl-MIME-Base64 are not only unnecessary on
> RHEL v5 (and clone OS's)
But they are needed on things other than RHEL5.
What's the best way of detecting RHEL5 and all its clones?

> but really need to be removed after installation of MailScanner
> because they are forced and create a maintenance headache.
>
> Craig
>

Jules

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