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Posted to dev@spamassassin.apache.org by "Warren Togami Jr." <wt...@gmail.com> on 2011/06/11 11:05:38 UTC

Remove Sought Rules from sa-update channel

On 6/10/2011 9:38 PM, Yet Another Ninja wrote:
> On 2011-06-11 3:38, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
>> On 6/10/2011 3:34 PM, John Hardin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Lawrence @ Rogers wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/06/2011 10:24 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
>>>>> On 6/10/2011 2:01 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
>>>>> > > IFF you use the sought channel with SA 3.3.x, you will need the
>>>>> reorder
>>>>> > hack to bend the alphabet.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not entirely clear to me, what exactly are you supposed to
>>>>> rename
>>>>> for the reorder hack? You have to do it every time you sa-update?
>>>>
>>>> Would renaming 20_sought_fraud.cf to 99_sought_fraud.cf, putting
>>>> 20_sought_fraud.cf (from the yelp.org channel) after 72_active.cf (the
>>>> default and assumed older SA rules) solve this problem?
>>>
>>> Or symlinks from your local configs directory to the SOUGHT channel
>>> directory files. That would probably be easier to not forget about when
>>> things get fixed.
>>>
>>
>> Is Lawrence's suggestion something we can do upstream to fix this
>> problem?
>>
>> Alternatively, I think it is a mistake for us to ship SOUGHT rules at
>> all in the standard sa-update channel. That is, unless we plan on
>> updating the patterns and scores of SOUGHT on a daily basis. I highly
>> doubt we will do that.
>
> Agreed, I'm +1 with removing SOUGHT rules from mainstream sa update
> channel. and keep thems separate.
>

+1

I guess we should put that into the script that generates the 
auto-updates?  Where is that script, and on what host does it run?  Daryl?

Warren Togami
warren@togami.com