MailScanner on yum repository

[Scott Silva]

on 1/4/2008 11:05 AM Mark Nienberg spake the following:
> Jason Ede wrote:
>> Hugo,
>>
>> When do you plan to put 4.66 onto the yum respository?
>>
>> I’ve used it to install mailscanner and it went on like a dream apart 
>> from needing the mailtools patch for which I’ll need to wait for 4.66
> 
> I played around with the repo too when I was setting up a new server.  
> Initially I thought I could use the yum priorities plugin to prevent 
> installation of packages from rpmforge that were already in the centOS 
> base repo. This won't work though, because one of the requires for 
> MailScanner is a recent SA and there is an old SA package in the base 
> repo, so the priorities plugin prevents yum from finding the new SA 
> package in rpmforge.  You have to disable the priorities plugin or 
> assign rpmforge an equal priority with the base repo, which effectively 
> does the same thing.
> 
> Then the problem of package updates in the rpmforge repo breaking a 
> working MailScanner started to show up.
> 
> Upon further reflection, I think there are a few ways to make this 
> work.  One would be to specify exact package version requirements in the 
> mailscanner-wrapper spec file. So instead of:
> 
> Requires: perl-MIME-tools >= 5.412
> 
> specify the exact package known to work with MailScanner.  This should 
> be the version provided in Julian's install package.  I think yum would 
> then refuse to upgrade those packages when new ones come out on 
> rpmforge, which would be good.  In fact, this would be an improvement 
> over using Julian's installation script, because having the 
> mailscanner-wrapper rpm installed would protect you against updates that 
> might break your mailscanner.
> 
> Another option would be to maintain a complete repo with all the 
> packages needed, and then use the priorities plugin to give this repo a 
> higher priority than rpmforge.  I don't know much about maintaining 
> repos. Maybe the packages are just copied over from rpmforge.
> 
> I confess that ultimately I went back to the standard install script 
> (which works perfectly well of course), but I think the repo method 
> could be made to work with some volunteer effort, and may even offer 
> some advantages as outlined above.
> 
> Mark
> 
I have to confess that I might also go back to Julian's install script. I want 
to get these servers online by the end of the month.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!