building on Red Hat EL v 5

[Julian Field]

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Randal, Phil wrote:
> 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.

I have improved upgrade_MailScanner_conf and upgrade_languages_conf so
that this no longer causes a problem. If there is no .rpmnew file (as
given in the example command-line the script tells you to type), then
the .conf file is output to the .new file, so you can blindly copy the
.new over your .conf without any problems arising.

New script attached. Gunzip it and copy it to
/usr/sbin/upgrade_MailScanner_conf and the upgrade_languages_conf will
pick it up automatically.

Please give it a try and confirm it works okay for you.

Jules.

> -----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
>>
> 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.
>

Jules

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jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Teaching Systems Manager
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
SO17 1BJ, UK

Jules

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