SA/MS Installer dependencies

[Alex Broens]

On 4/8/2008 3:57 PM, Julian Field wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

Yep,
AND: If you & other admins agree, LWP::UserAgent and its *immediate* 
dependencies to be able to run sa-update out of the box.

thanks

Alex