Hi - let's keep this on list OK? answer at bottom
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:19 -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > I am confused. Are you recommending that I not use RPM with the tarball > and instead untar and use the script? > > Please let me know. > > Thanks, > Dale Cabell > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:00 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Help for beginner > > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:16 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > FWIW, Dale's been mailing me privately where I've been answering, but > just for > > everyone's info: > > > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:04:18AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > > > Where do I put the tar? After I untar it, where do I execute the > > > rpmbuild from? > > > > "rpmbuild -tb" says to build a binary RPM from a tarball. So: > > > > rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.3.tar.gz > > > > will build the RPMs from the named tarball. Depending on your > environment, > > you may need to be root and the packages may appear under > /usr/src/redhat. > > > > The download page also mentions the '--define "srcext .bz2"' option > which you > > need if you download the bz2 tarball instead of the gz one. > ---- > given the methodology that MailScanner uses, I don't think that I would > do that (compile an rpm from a tarball). Unless you know something that > I don't know that is. > > The MailScanner download for rpm based system is indeed a tarball which > you have to extract and then run the 'install.sh' script which is a perl > program which actually builds a lot of requisite perl packages and > finally mailscanner itself into rpm files and installs the rpm's (or not > if you already have newer versions of the rpm's installed already). It's > a sophisticated, comprehensive approach to installing a whole lot of > stuff and doing it the way the system is configured (via rpm). ---- http://www.mailscanner.info/linux.html This is the information page for installing MailScanner on RPM based Linux system. If you read this, you will see that even though you are using an rpm based system, you download a tarball package, 'un-tar' the tarball and then start the installation process via 'install.sh' command. This actually ends up installing MailScanner and all requisite perl packages via RPM. Please read this guide. Craig
