On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:55:58 -0500 (EST) "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Any idea when we'll get RPMs available for the new release?

It's (usually) not difficult to build your own. This initial directory
is for SuSE; Red Hat hides their build tree elsewhere, like
/usr/src/redhat:

# as root
cd /usr/src/packages
cd SOURCES
wget http://SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62.tar.gz
cd ..
rpm -ta SOURCES/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62.tar.gz

If rpm is in a good mood, it'll build a few packages somewhere under
./RPMS. My rpm is not in a good mood, probably because I manage perl
modules with CPAN; rpm doesn't obviously fail but it also doesn't
generate packages either[1]. If you run an all-rpm system you'll
probably have better luck.

-- 
Bob

[1] Under SuSE 8.2, 'rpm -ta SOURCES/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62.tar.gz'
produces the following and exits with a return code of 1. So rpm thinks
there's an error but doesn't have the courtesy to explain what that
error is:

...
Processing files: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62-1
Finding  Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides.perl)...
Finding  Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires.perl)...
+ '[' -x /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req -a -n '' ']'
Provides: perl(Mail::SpamAssassin) = 2.62 perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::AuditMessage) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::AutoWhitelist) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::CmdLearn) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::ConfSourceSQL) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::DBBasedAddrList) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Dns) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMIME) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMessage) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EvalTests) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::HTML) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::MailingList) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Message) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::NetSet) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgLearner) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PersistentAddrList) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Received) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Replier) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Repo
 rter) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::SHA1) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::TextCat) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::UnixLocker) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Util) 
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Win32Locker)
PreReq: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
Requires: perl >= 5.004 perl(Pod::Usage) perl(HTML::Parser)

Note that SA builds and installs just fine from source. While I've
probably upgraded a number of these packages from CPAN, 'rpm -qa | egrep
perl' shows:

perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.80-68
perl-ldap-ssl-0.26-29
perl-gettext-1.01-373
perl-Archive-Tar-0.22-260
perl-Convert-ASN1-0.16-41
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.16-196
perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-69
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-348
perl-Tie-IxHash-1.21-383
perl-IO-stringy-2.108-184
perl-MailTools-1.47-70
perl-URI-1.22-41
perl-Archive-Zip-1.05-13
perl-PDA-Pilot-0.11.7-24
perl-Cyrus-IMAP-2.1.12-29
perl-Cyrus-SIEVE-managesieve-2.1.12-29
perl-Unix-Syslog-0.98-70
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-0.92-28
perl-MIME-tools-5.411a-189
pgperl-2.0.2-28
perl-libwww-perl-5.65-89
perl-Convert-UUlib-0.213-69
perl-Net_SSLeay-1.21-34
perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-87
perl-XML-Parser-2.31-89
perl-5.8.0-104
perl-Tk-800.024-118
perl-ldap-0.26-29
mod_perl-1.27-114

so I really don't know what rpm's problem is (missing perl-Pod-Usage?)
Maybe it doesn't like my attitude...


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