On 7/11/2011 7:53 PM, R - elists wrote:
It's removal was based at least in part on a belief that it
was not actually usable for anybody. You could take it up
with the dev list, particularly if you're up for maintaining
it in a way that's useful for the major rpm platforms.
Either way you probably want to talk to Warren Togami, the
resident RedHat guy.
I'd like to see it included, but nobody was willing to maintain it.
You should be able to easily copy the relevant files from the
3.3.1 tarball, if they worked for you.
Darxus,
thanks for the info.
i checked the bug link you gave, and frankly, pulling the .spec file because
of
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6314
doesnt make any sense to me, yet what do i know...
;-)
anyways, if i knew what the relevant files were between the two, id take a
shot at it
looks like it might be time to find a different solution
bums us out cause we have actually been supportive (in small personal way)
of the SA people / project.
- rh
I am sorry that you have been inconvenienced by this change. It was
done because far more often it has caused support confusion and breakage
for RPM distributions as the rpmbuild -ta packages are incompatible with
the way spamassassin is packaged by all distributions. The rpmbuild -ta
method has never been a supportable method, people often experience
problems after installing it that way caused, report it, cause confusion
for distributors, and in the end they were always ignored.
The official .spec file for EL5, EL6 and Fedora are identical. It could
technically build and work on EL4 with minor changes, but I dropped
support for EL4 LONG AGO because the old version of perl there has
problems with the proper operation of spamassassin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hat_enterprise_linux
In any case, it is time that you upgrade from EL4 because its supported
lifetime ends February 2012. Good time to upgrade to EL6 which is
supported until the year 2017. RHEL6 is great. CentOS 6 was just
released. Scientific Linux 6 was out for a while now, and 6.1 is coming
real soon.
Warren Togami
war...@togami.com
