jdow wrote: > It needs Archive::Tar? Yep. See the comments in sa-update around line 89: # These are the non-standard required modules # Use the evals to avoid the annoying RPM requirement check eval { use Net::DNS; }; eval { use LWP::UserAgent; }; eval { use HTTP::Date qw(time2str); }; eval { use Archive::Tar 1.23; }; eval { use IO::Zlib 1.04; }; I'm not sure precisely what annoying RPM requirement checks they're trying to avoid, but it worked to prevent rpm from picking up the dependencies automatically at package creation time. > How are you installing it? (I jettison the Fedora RPM and use cpan. > That gives you a "canonical" install. Before removing the RPM save > the file /etc/init.d/spamassassin. It is useful when it comes time > to make spamd run.) I've had good times with the Fedora packages, but I don't stress SA too much I suppose. I am avidly opposed to letting CPAN (or configure; make; make install) drop stuff into my system with only a hope that it will clean it up. It's amazing how many badly written install/uninstall routines you find when trolling through people's source code. :) Using rpm packages is much more reliable and accountable for me, generally. Of course, it was busted in this case, but it's similarly busted for a tarball install as well. It's just that doing the manual install you may be more likely to catch the warning: NOTE: the optional Archive::Tar (version 1.23) module is not installed. The "sa-update" script requires this module to access tar update archive files. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
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