On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:35:08PM -0600, Shayne Hardesty wrote:
| On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote:
|
| > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Smith, Rick wrote:
| >
| > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a CVS site for the RULES only ?
| > >
| > > That might be worth it... a CVS update with a script that allowed us to
| > > rollback to a previous rule level, but all the while maintaining the
| > > newest set of rules for the whole kit-n-kaboodle of spam/mers
| >
| > Lots of times the rules use eval checks. This could be easily avoided.
| >
| > And sometimes rules move between regex and eval. That's a little bit
| > harder.
|
| Understandably it would take some forward thinking to package evals and
| rules in a way that they could be distributed separately from
| spamassassin, but to me this makes the most sense.. I was thinking about
| this earlier this week.. As spamassassin evolves, rules will need to be
| updated regularly (weekly?), but I think forcing a recompile and reinstall
| of spamc/spamd every time rules change is silly.. It would make more
| sense to me to work sort of like anti-virus software where you download a
| weekly "spam definition file" or whatever and install that to get the
| latest and greatest rules. Then spamc/spamd updates can be handled on a
| much slower timeframe (in theory they wouldn't change that much).
For the non-eval rules, this is just a simple packaging matter.
Duncan could fairly easily create a separate spamassassin-rules
package and still the rule files there. Of course, if you don't use
Debian you're out of luck (as far as letting him do the dirty work
:-)). For the eval rules; if they are put in a separate file from the
rest of spam(d|assassin)'s code, the same thing could be done right
now as long as the package stops the daemon during the install.
If Duncan feels up to adding another control file and some more rules
to his Makefile, debian could have this feature shortly :-).
-D
--
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but the wicked have their fill of trouble.
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