4.76.22

[Jason Ede]

A yum update on a centos 5.2 box will update it to 5.3 automatically.

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field [MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 28 April 2009 16:35
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: 4.76.22

On 28/04/2009 16:21, Michael Van Der Beek wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> There are some who build their servers in VPS (virtual private
> servers). These facilities don't usually have the latest distros
> available.
> Most I've seen are still at 5.2 so upgrading is necessary : )
I disagree. What features of 5.3 do you need? 5.2 is still
fully-supported with patches and so on, you can just continue to "yum
update" your servers and keep them at 5.2. I see no reason to upgrade
them at all.

> Julian Field wrote:
>> If you are cleanly installing boxes with 5.2 then upgrading them to
>> 5.3, why pray not just install 5.3 in the first place, as we all know
>> that works.
>>
>> I cannot cope with every combination of every upgrade that has ever
>> happened to a system in the past. That's just not practical.
>>
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 28/04/2009 13:45, Jason Ede wrote:
>>> I'm still having issues with the order of the modules on Centos 5.3
>>> box that has recently upgraded from 5.2. I'm build a fresh box on
>>> 5.2 that I'll then upgrade and test... I can still get it to install
>>> by moving IO:Stringy and MailTools till after IO and the perl-Math
>>> stuff to before IO.
>>>
>>> Can anyone else confirm this on a 5.2 box that has recently gone up
>>> to 5.3?
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>> Sent: 28 April 2009 11:56
>>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>>> Subject: 4.76.22
>>>>
>>>> I have just released a new beta, this will be one of the last before
>>>> the
>>>> next stable release.
>>>> Please test it, as I have optimised the processing-messages database
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>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Jules
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