Reply from Warren:
Kenneth,
Thanks for alerting to me to this. I tried to post to the list, but it
appears to be extremely slow or down at the moment or something.
jdow wrote:
Justin Mason wrote:
fyi, if you're using Fedora Core --
http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000715.html
totally unconfirmed, but worth noting in case that really is the case.
We have never shipped spamassassin with a changed default level. I have
absolutely no idea where this is coming from. He is either using some
3rd party repository or some other software is changing his local.cf.
This is not caused by Fedora AFAICT.
My copy of Fedora Core 4 has "required_hits 5" in local.cf using the
distribution's RPM for Spamassassin. rpm -Va made no complaints about
the file. Just to be sure, I uninstalled it, checked that local.cf
was gone, and reinstalled it via yum. Standard defaults.
It looks to me like something other than Fedora Core was messing with
his config.
Naw, the basic SpamAssassin install for FC4 is, as I remarked, borked.
I could not make it work satisfactorily. Too many pieces were broken,
in the wrong places, or just plain missing. The know-it-alls who set
it up seem to have had to properly pee on it to make it their own. Rip
it out however you can with the rpm tool and install it, and 2.54 tonnes
of other required "stuff", via CPAN. It'll work a whole lot better.
This is outright unsubstantiated FUD. The package works just as fine as
upstream, and there have been no bug reports proving otherwise.
It is also generally a bad idea to mix non-RPM installed stuff into an
RPM installed system. You are certainly free to do whatever you want to
your own system, but you live with needing to maintain it, remembering
what version stuff is, and hoping a future package wont stomp on your
non-package installed files. This is generally why most documentation
recommends installing non-packaged stuff into /usr/local or /opt in
order to avoid the chance of manually installed stuff conflicting or
getting blown away.
Warren Togami
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