[WBEL-users] SpamAssassin 2.63 RPM's / upgrade issues

Tarjei Knapstad tarjeik@chemcon.no
26 Jan 2004 14:03:55 +0100


On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 23:17, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> I just built my own WBEL RPM's for spamassassin 2.63, and noted afterwards 
> that starting probably with 2.60 there's a dependancy on the perl module 
> DB_File.
> 

Should be listed as a dependency in the .spec then

> So for those upgrading and discovering bayes doesn't work anymore : you'll 
> need to grab DB_File from CPAN. After that I simply wiped my old data and 
> started anew, was too lazy to reconfigure...
> 

CPAN is generally not a very good solution wrt. to keeping track of
things. Why not just install the perl-DB_File rpm? (It's on my RH8 box
if nothing else, so I assume it's still included in later distros)

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Tarjei