> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark R. Cervarich > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:09 PM > Subject: Spamassassin, Perl, newer RPMS & up2date > > > Greeting everyone, > > I've been using RedHat since 1996 and have recently made the jump to > version 8.0 > > In the past, I would download .tar.gz files and install programs that > I was interested in "by hand", but want to see if I can use > https://rhn.redhat.com/ (the Red Hat Network) and up2date for 99% of > my programs...because I believe it will help me keep more up to date > with security concerns, etc. > > Anyways, I'm currently using spamassassin-2.31-16 which shipped with > RedHat 8.0. I'd like to "upgrade" that to a more recent version. > http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html tells me of some RPMS made > availble, but it looks like they are for RedHat 7.3. > > So what should I do? > How should I upgrade spamassassin without messing up the benefits of > rhn and up2date?
I'm not aware of any magical way to keep up2date in sync when Redhat is lagging so far behind on certain applications. SA is currently at revision 2.43. I just deleted the Redhat SA RPM and then downloaded the latest SA RPM from the spamassassin.org site and have not looked back. Yes up2date is out of sync with regards to SA, but there are just way to many new features/fixes between SA-2.31 to 2.43 to justify keeping up2date in sync. At least for SA. > > 2nd question: > Same as the first, but with perl instead. > I've got perl-5.8.0-55 installed (came with RedHat 8.0), but it seems > to output wierd warnings about unicode, etc. This is a well known problem with SA/Perl/RH-8.0. Short answer: edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n and change the LANG statement to LANG=POSIX. Works for me! I'm running RH-8.0, perl-5.8.0-55 and SA-2.43 (the rpm from the sa website) without any problems at all. Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
