freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

[Charles Swiger]

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 Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl 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