woody: upgrade from 2.55 to 3.0.x from sources

[sebastian ovide <se...@yahoo.it>]

Hi all,

anybody know if there is any problem in upgrading spamassassin from
2.55 to 3.0.2 on woody from sources (so with make, make install....)

thanks in advance


	
	
		
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Re: woody: upgrade from 2.55 to 3.0.x from sources

[Josh Trutwin <jo...@trutwins.homeip.net>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:08:59 +0000 (GMT)
sebastian ovide <se...@yahoo.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> anybody know if there is any problem in upgrading spamassassin from
> 2.55 to 3.0.2 on woody from sources (so with make, make install....)
> 
> thanks in advance

I have a Debian woody box that I just upgraded from 2.64 to 3.0.2 and
there were no problems.  Read the UPGRADE docs VERY carefully though. 
Also, make sure you upgrade the Perl modules listed in the INSTALL
docs via CPAN, stuff like DB_File and Net::DNS might be too old in the
woody distro.

I'm using the SQL Bayes/AWL as well and it works pretty slick so far. 
Another you might need to upgrade is your RulesDuJour script if you
use that, some of the rules are pre/post 3.0.

Josh

Re: woody: upgrade from 2.55 to 3.0.x from sources

[Bob Proulx <bo...@proulx.com>]

sebastian ovide wrote:
> anybody know if there is any problem in upgrading spamassassin from
> 2.55 to 3.0.2 on woody from sources (so with make, make install....)

Upgrading all of the sources by hand of course works fine.  But the
process can be involved and tedious.

I recommend using the www.backports.org packaging.  Put the following
in your /etc/apt/sources.list line.

  deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable spamassassin

Then:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install spamassassin libnet-dns-perl libmail-spf-query-perl

Then read /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/{UPGRADE.gz,README.gz} files.

Bob