building on Red Hat EL v 5

[Randal, Phil]

Auto-updates was one of my concerns.

But there is still the issue of which is the right approach?  Update config files saving a copy of the originals, or not updating and requiring a manual process?

Maybe we should have a poll of how many on this list install and run the upgrade scripts without batting an eyelid?

I certainly do.  And surely it would be worth investing a bit of time (if that's needed) to make the upgrade process simple and "fool" proof?

There was an issue of the upgrade_languages_conf not creating a languages.new file if nothing changed, resulting in a bit of a disaster if there wasn't already a languages.new file and you blindly copied languages.new over languages.conf.

Cheers,

Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Charles Lacroix
Sent: 17 October 2007 19:52
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: building on Red Hat EL v 5


Can't we echo a message saying "Don't forget to upgrade your config and 
language"
but then again some people run auto-updates :(

Would it break anthing if we force ran them in the %post of the rpm and 
keep a .rpmsave/timestamp of the config files.

I'm interested in this discution as I'll be pushing rhel clone to 
production soon and i hate to keep -devel packages installed on my machines.

later,
charles




Randal, Phil a écrit :
> Hugo,
>
> I think it's time to repeat my original concerns about putting
> MailScanner on rpmforge.
>
> I'm not against it at all, it's a fab idea, but....
>
> Users will expect (and in my opinion rightfully so) "yum update" to do
> the right thing.  That is, update MailScanner and any dependencies and
> restart MailScanner.
>
> Now, at the moment we have two obstacles to that:
>
>   upgrade_MailScanner_conf and upgrade_languages_conf.
>
> I for one would vote for the default MailScanner install doing this
> automatically and creating .rpmsave copies of the previous .conf files.
>
> Comments anyone?
>
> Phil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Hugo
> van der Kooij
> Sent: 17 October 2007 18:53
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: building on Red Hat EL v 5
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>   
>> But they are needed on things other than RHEL5.
>> What's the best way of detecting RHEL5 and all its clones?
>>     
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5 (Final)
>
>
> I have just asked if anyone is working on MailScanner for rpmforge. If
> no one is doing so I will give it a shot.
>
> Hugo.
>
> - --
> hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org               http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/
> PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc
>
> Bored? Click on http://spamornot.org/ and rate those images.
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFHFkwGBvzDRVjxmYERAoBFAJ9OmUKgNx6R3cquw3GFh935/ItdugCguFMG
> iEH2kGz12mxndoWBDDBsznQ=
> =Ykdb
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>   

-- 
MailScanner mailing list
mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner

Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!