Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:13:02 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>, "Michael Whitley" <mwhitley@czinetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port Message-ID: <001101c3e217$36bff1e0$0101a8c0@cascade> References: <000c01c3e1db$d1bd2ff0$0f8a23a6@open.wcomnet.com> <08497192-4DD7-11D8-A782-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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Charles Swiger wrote: > 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. Why perl 5.8? My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and amavisd-new without any trouble at all. Tom Veldhouse
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