On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Jeffrey Starin <jeffrey.sta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/9/2011 10:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 09.07.2011 16:40, schrieb Jeffrey Starin: >> >>>> NEVER do any source-install over a installed RPM and i guess yu >>>> can not remove the rpm-package beause of dependencies >>>> >>>> the other option would be using a prebuilt RPM >>>> even as fedora user i guess there are some for CentOS 5 >>>> but they are not included upstream - so you have to trust the builder >>>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> As I'm relatively new to these things when you say take a src.rpm from >>> centOS6 might you mean this? >>> >>> >>> http://pkgs.org/download/centos-6-rhel-6/epel-i386/spamass-milter-postfix-0.3.1-21.el6.noarch.rpm.html >>> >>> I just want to make extra sure I'm getting the right package. >>> Thanks >> >> .SRC.rpm NOT .rpm, what you linked is a binary rpm >> you have to rebuild (recompile) this with rpmbuil --rebuild file.src.rpm >> >> but since you want to download "spamass-milter-postfix" while search for >> "postfix" >> i would recommend let that do somebody who knows a little bit about >> administration >> because we can not learn you basic-knowledges on a mailing-list >> >> > Thank you. You've been more than helpful already. > > Cheers.
Jeffrey: Have the technician read this: http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2011/01/building-postfix-2-8-on-rhel5-centos-5-from-source/ It will walk him through upgrading from 2.3.3 to 2.8.3 on CentOS (which is what I'm guessing your OS is). The same instructions can be used for 2.8.4. SteveJ
