From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 11:05:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E456116A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:05:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB21843D6D for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i0NJ4uxk023469; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:04:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [66.234.138.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id i0NJ4uXg023542; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:04:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <000c01c3e1db$d1bd2ff0$0f8a23a6@open.wcomnet.com> References: <000c01c3e1db$d1bd2ff0$0f8a23a6@open.wcomnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <08497192-4DD7-11D8-A782-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:04:55 -0500 To: Michael Whitley X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:05:44 -0000 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 Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl 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