SpamAssassin install failed on Debian Stretch

[Eoin Kim]

Hello,

As a workaround, I commented out the line below in /etc/perl/sitecustomize.pl file:
pop @INC if $INC[-1] eq '.' and !$ENV{PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC};

And ran the install.sh script and it worked. SpamAssassin test failed but installation worked.
--> Working on Mail::SpamAssassin
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/K/KM/KMCGRAIL/SpamAssassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Mail-SpamAssassin-3.004001 ... OK
Building and testing Mail-SpamAssassin-3.004001 ... ! Testing Mail-SpamAssassin-3.004001 failed but installing it anyway.
FAIL
Successfully installed Mail-SpamAssassin-3.004001
1 distribution installed

So, now I may have to revert the setting back. Thanks guys.

Eoin

From: Eoin Kim
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2018 7:40 AM
To: 'MailScanner Discussion' <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: RE: SpamAssassin install failed on Debian Stretch

Hi again,

Okay, I think I found the reason for this but I need help regarding this issue. It looks like the current source code is not working with Debian due to security reasons like below:
http://spamassassin.1065346.n5.nabble.com/Bug-7367-New-spamc-configure-pl-Can-t-exec-version-h-pl-No-such-file-or-directory-at-spamc-configure-td123231.html

So, the patch is already out there:
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1782717

I believe the patch should be applied and compiled manually. If so, I guess install.sh command that I used below is not going to work, isn't it? It should somehow skip the automatic installation of SpamAssassin, which means I should modify install.sh script. Are there any ways to run the installation of patched SpamAssassin without altering the install.sh script (I believe not)? Thanks again.

Eoin

From: Eoin Kim
Sent: Monday, 25 June 2018 4:11 PM
To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>>
Subject: SpamAssassin install failed on Debian Stretch

Hi all,

I am not sure if this is the correct behaviour or not but it looks like SpamAssassin installation fails on Debian Stretch during MailScanner installation. I ran the following command to install MailScanner:
./install.sh --MTA=postfix --installClamav=Y --installCPAN=Y --ignoreDeps=N --ramdiskSize=0

Things were going well and I could read the message below during the install:
Building and testing Mail-SpamAssassin-3.004001 ... ! Installing Mail::SpamAssassin failed. See /root/.cpanm/work/1529900078.18195/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.

When I looked at the file, it says like below:
cd spamc
/usr/bin/perl version.h.pl
Makefile:1792: recipe for target 'spamc/Makefile' failed
make: *** [spamc/Makefile] Error 2
-> FAIL Installing Mail::SpamAssassin failed. See /root/.cpanm/work/1529900078.18195/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.

I just waited until the installation finished, and strange enough, I could see the message below:
Mail::SpamAssassin => OK

I am now confused. How should I interpret this? Are there anyone having the same issue? I would appreciate any helps. Thanks a lot.

Eoin Kim
Systems Administrator

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