RedHat Rules in RPM discussion was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 available

["Kevin A. McGrail" <km...@apache.org>]

The SpamAssassin has published a rules file for eons along with 
releases, e.g. the bolded part of the release:

Released version, 4.0.0

     SpamAssassin in tar.gz format. (signatures: GPG SHA-256 SHA-512)
     SpamAssassin in tar.bz2 format. (signatures: GPG SHA-256 SHA-512)
     SpamAssassin in ZIP format. (signatures: GPG SHA-256 SHA-512)
     Announcement, Detailed Changes
*    SpamAssassin sa-update rules tarball, for use if you cannot run 
sa-update to download these automatically after installing. (signatures: 
GPG SHA-256 SHA-512)*

If you don't like what a distribution such as redhat chooses to do from 
there should really be discussed with those package maintainers.

Regards,
KAM

On 12/20/2022 11:01 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On 12/19/2022 11:10 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Actually, not really.  Packages should be able to run out of the box,
>> with no network fetching needed.  The pkgsrc entry -- also updated to
>> 4.0.0 -- fetches the release rules at package build time and includes
>> them.  But, it does build 😄
>
> I haven't yet looked through the spec file, but it occurred to me that 
> the rules are included to test the build and perhaps are not included 
> in the package. One could also move them to a subpackage for end users 
> who need to test the installation in a disconnected state.
>
>
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