On 1/8/2015 10:28 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2015-01-08 17:18: >> On 1/8/2015 10:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> Am 08.01.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Eric Broch: >>>> I read through the release announcements for Spamassassin 3.4.0 (I'm >>>> currently running 3.3.2) and noticed it was tested with perl >>>> 5.18.2. Can >>>> Spamassassin 3.4.0 be run safely with perl 5.5.8 which is the >>>> latest for >>>> RHEL 5 or with perl 5.10.1 which is the latest for RHEL 6? >>> >>> avoid it, there was a long trouble thread, more about other perl >>> packages as perl itself on RHEL5 >>> >> To my knowledge, we officially support perl 5.6.1 as the lowest with >> 5.8.6 running on some systems working OK. But in generally, something >> newer is going to be better with less spurious issues. > > imho 5.5.8 is older then 5.6.1 > > why dont rpm maintainers update is beyong me :( > > i dropped redhat 8 long time ago, hated to continue there needs for > payments and updates via iso files, seems all other rpm based distro > still have this hobby
Sorry, Benny I meant 5.8.8 is the latest version on RHEL 5 / COS 5. I mistyped.