Preliminary question: Is there a searchable archive of this list? I hate
jumping in without looking for past threads, but visually scanning the
geocrawler archive is just not cutting it.
Now for the real discussion:
I just tried installing SpamAssassin from the CPAN shell. The test phase
fails for the version currently in the CPAN archives because it first
does the db_based_whitelist test and then, using the same file name but
without removing it in between, tries the dir_based_whitelist test. Then
it goes on and does other tests that appear to require the whitelist from
the db_based_whitelist test.
Next the install fails because I don't have root access. There appear to
be a number of hardwired paths relative to /usr{,/{local,share}} and /etc
embedded in the .pm files. There's a LOCAL_RULES_DIR macro in Makefile,
but it doesn't get used in all the places where that directory is named,
and of course there's no nice way to tell CPAN to pass a different value
for a nonstandard macro.
For now I've just gone ahead and munged paths by hand in the sources and
then done a "force install" to ignore the failed tests, but I wanted to
find out whether these problems have already been fixed and if so, when a
new version might hit CPAN.
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