MailScanner v5 Beta Available

[Jerry Benton]

If the upgrade of MailScanner.conf was successful, they should be the same. (with your settings.)

I will look at why the told RPM isn’t updated. It could be the naming in the spec file. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On May 3, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Wolfgang Baudler <wbaudler at gb.nrao.edu> wrote:
> 
> It did install now with the "--force" added, but the old 4.85.2 rpm is
> still installed after that. Should it not uninstall that cleanly first?
> 
> Also, it looks like it failed to upgrade MailScanner.conf:
> 
> Upgrading /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> 
> Your old configuration file will be saved as:
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.old.5354
> 
> Substitution pattern not terminated at -e line 1.
> Usage:
> 
> 
> Both MailScanner.conf and MailScanner.conf.old.5354 are identical.
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
>> I didn?t try to upgrade. Edit line 758 of the install.sh and change to
>> this:
>> 
>> $RPM -Uvh --force $NODEPS MailScanner*noarch.rpm
>> 
>> Let me know how it goes.
>> 
>> Note: many file locations have changed.
>> 
>> see:
>> 
>> /usr/share/MailScanner
>> /var/lib/MailScanner
>> /etc/MailScanner
>> 
>> 
>> -
>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 3, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Wolfgang Baudler <wbaudler at gb.nrao.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Tried to install on a fully patched RHEL6.7 system that already had
>>> MailScanner 4.85 installed (so, attempting an upgrade) and the
>>> install.sh
>>> script bailed out with this error:
>>> 
>>> Installing the MailScanner RPM ...
>>> Preparing...
>>> ##################################################
>>>       file /usr/sbin/MailScanner from install of
>>> MailScanner-5.0.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package
>>> mailscanner-4.85.2-3.noarch
>>>       file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf from install of
>>> MailScanner-5.0.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package
>>> mailscanner-4.85.2-3.noarch
>>>       file /etc/MailScanner/country.domains.conf from install of
>>> MailScanner-5.0.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package
>>> mailscanner-4.85.2-3.noarch
>>>       file /etc/MailScanner/rules/EXAMPLES from install of
>>> MailScanner-5.0.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package
>>> mailscanner-4.85.2-3.noarch
>>>       file /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.conf from install of
>>> MailScanner-5.0.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package
>>> mailscanner-4.85.2-3.noarch
>>>       file /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf from install of
>>> MailScanner-5.0.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package
>>> mailscanner-4.85.2-3.noarch
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> Installation Error
>>> 
>>> Wolfgang
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 200 hours later ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Per the subject, this is beta. If you have a moment, please test your
>>>> preferred distro and report your results. Unless there are any code
>>>> issues, this will be the v5 release.
>>>> 
>>>> Development note: anything you want to commit on the v4 branch needs to
>>>> also be done on the v5 branch. As of this moment, I am not even looking
>>>> at
>>>> v4 anymore.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Debian
>>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/beta/MailScanner-5.0.0-1.deb.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> RHEL
>>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/beta/MailScanner-5.0.0-1.rhel.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> SUSE
>>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/beta/MailScanner-5.0.0-1.suse.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> NIX*
>>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/beta/MailScanner-5.0.0-1.nix.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Some items to note:
>>>> 
>>>> - /etc/MailScanner/defaults replaced /etc/sysconfig/mailscanner and
>>>> /etc/default/mailscanner across all platforms including NIX*
>>>> - NIX: the startup script is /var/lib/MailScanner/init/ms-int (also
>>>> across
>>>> all platforms)
>>>> - NIX: no more /opt directory
>>>> - ?service mailscanner start? is now lower case across all platforms
>>>> - ls /usr/sbin/ms-* to see all of the executables
>>>> - /usr/sbin/MailScanner is still the main program
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -
>>>> Jerry Benton
>>>> www.mailborder.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
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