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

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> 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.

Not nescessarily. At least I do not expect yum to update my config files 
but add the new default ones to the system with the .rpmnew addition.

A tool like Nagios can have a really serious set of config files and I 
appreciate it that my config files remain intact after a `yum update 
nagios`. I know I have to recheck the config files against the new 
version.

Just point out the steps in the post install script but NOT automate this.

Hugo.

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