yum repositories, was: Just some ideas for upcoming MailScanner releases

[Kai Schaetzl]

Tom G. Christensen wrote on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:31:08 +0200:

> The MS tarball includes atleast one core module newer than what is 
> shipped with perl 5.8.8.

This doesn't mean you need it.

> This means even a dist like CentOS5 needs this module updated unless the 
>   version dependency is lowered.

Not at all. You install all modules that CentOS5 (or whichever else) 
doesn't have, for instance from rpmforge. Then you install *only* the 
mailscanner*.rpm from the tarball. And only that should be what gets 
installed via yum. There's no dependency on File::Temp v0.18 in the rpm, so 
there should be none when installed via yum. As File::Temp is already part 
of Perl there should not even be a dependency on *any* version of it for 
those OSes that ship with it included.

One thing that is more of a problem is what Phil Randal pointed out. Some 
things that you normally do "half-automated" after installation have to be 
incorporated in the yum install process and run automatically in a senseful 
way.

Kai

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