spamassassin Y2010 bug

[Matt Emmerton]

> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:10:19 +0000
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Comments, critique are welcome.  Unless there are any killer bugs,
>> I'll send-pr(1) in a week or so.
>
> You have:
>
> : ${daily_sa_compile="YES"}
>
> sa-compile is installed by the SA port, but it requires devel/re2c,
> which is an optional dependency. With a standard install your script
> will update the rules, the compile will unconditionally fail, and so
> spamd won't get restarted.
>
> You could detect the re2c port, but I think it would be better to turn
> it off by default
>
> I'd also suggest running sa-compile with nice  by default.

I've put up a set of diffs (patches) in shar format that address some of 
these issues:

1) re2c is listed as a run dependency.  No two ways around it - if you do 
plan on running sa-compile at some time, you'll need re2c, and chances are 
that the machine that is running sa-update is also going to be running 
sa-compile.

2) sa-compile is nice(1)'d by default, and you can provide other flags to 
nice(1) as well.

See http://www.gsicomp.on.ca/~matt/sa-utils-patches.shar

Regards,
--
Matt Emmerton