I'm running debian on my mail server. I use etckeeper to track changes in /etc.
Often I run across modules such as spamassassin-esp and maybe I would consider playing with Jared Hall's CHAOS module. I'm curious what the recommended best practice is to install such modules from a git repo. For spamassassin-esp, I cloned the repo into my /etc/spamassassin/ directory and then added this to my local.cf: loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Esp spamassassin-esp/Esp.pm include spamassassin-esp/Esp.cf This allows me to 'git pull' from this repository from time to time to update it. But it's not perfect, especially as I have local changes to Esp.cf. It's actually worse since I forked it to give back some changes but I'd say that's perhaps less usual. Furthermore, as I said, I use etckeeper and when I 'apt upgrade', I get constant warnings: modified: spamassassin/spamassassin-esp (modified content, untracked content) So clearly it's not ideal to clone a spamassassin module into /etc/spamassassin! I'm curious if someone has a clean solution here that allows updating the module from time to time from git. I realize this may be more a debian question and I may post it on the debian-users list if I don't get any decent replies here. Michael Grant
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