freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

[Jack L. Stone]

At 02:04 PM 1.23.2004 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
>On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote:
>> I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of 
>> Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl 
>> version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for 
>> freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had success with 
>> installing it on a 4.8 system?
>
>FreeBSD 4.8 should be recent enough that you can use a modern ports 
>tree without the CONFLICTS feature causing problems, so use CVSUP to 
>update your ports tree to the current version.  From there, install 
>/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8, and then run "use.perl port".
>
>That should give you the latest version of Perl, from which you can 
>then install the p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port (or spamass-milter, or 
>amavisd, or whatever).  You can also try installing the software via 
>"perl -MCPAN -e shell \;", and do an "install Mail::SpamAssassin", but 
>the ports mechanism is better tested.
>
>-- 
>-Chuck
>

For SA-2.6x, perl5.003 is fine. But as of yesterday, the developer advised
me that when SA-3.0 is released, perl5.6.1 is required and recommended --
see my earlier post.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

Sage American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks at sage-american.com