SA/MS Installer dependencies

[Julian Field]

Alex Broens wrote:
> On 4/8/2008 2:51 PM, Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> Alex Broens wrote:
> >> Jules,
> >> - Seems SA dependencies are added by the MS installer.
> >> why?
> >> This breaks possible SA updates and forces the admin into setup 
> methods which *could* cause isssues in the future
> >>
> >> The one more noticeably missing are
> >>
> >>
> >> REQUIRED module missing: HTML::Parser
> >This is in both packages, as both of them need it.
> > optional module missing: LWP::UserAgent (for sa-update)
> > optional module missing: HTTP::Date (for sa-update)
> >
> > I came across this when I wanted to update an older MailScanner box 
> with  the latest SA/Clam installer.
> >
> >> Could you please keep SA's dependencies in SA's installer and not 
> in MS's
>
> >What are you saying do you think is wrong? HTML::Parser is the only 
> >important one here, and is in both the MailScanner and ClamAV+SA 
> >distributions as both of them need it.
>
> I see them there... but as said. The installer borked with that msg.
>
> Thanks for (hopefully) adding the others  required by sa-update:
>
> _______________________________
> NOTE: the optional LWP::UserAgent module is not installed.
> NOTE: the optional HTTP::Date module is not installed.
>
>
>  The "sa-update" script requires this module to make HTTP
>   If-Modified-Since GET requests.
>
> optional module missing: HTTP::Date 
So what you would actually like me to do is add HTTP::Date to the 
SpamAssassin installation package?

Jules

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