Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:03:30 +0200 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org wrote: it will just be unsafe to restore it, correct way to upgrade is with rpms if installed that way, missing latest spamassassin, make a bug on your distro There are multiple ways to handle it :-) Pat wants the

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 6/1/11 8:43 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: See, this is why I really shouldn't be left alone in front of a keyboard. My perl installation is 5.12.3, NOT 5.3.12. Sigh... On 01.06.11 08:47, Michael Scheidell wrote: it should be 'safe' to backup the ../site_perl* and ../lib/perl5* libraries, and

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/2/2011 3:29 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 6/1/11 8:43 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: See, this is why I really shouldn't be left alone in front of a keyboard. My perl installation is 5.12.3, NOT 5.3.12. Sigh... On 01.06.11 08:47, Michael Scheidell wrote: it should be 'safe' to backup the

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-02 Thread Jose Borges Ferreira
Hi! I usually install several versions of SA on the same machine without any trouble. Fo instance, to test 3.3.2-rc2 I used this procedure 1 wget http://people.apache.org/~wtogami/devel/3.3.2-rc2/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.2-rc2.tar.gz 2 wget -q

Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Pat Traynor
Here's my situation: I lease a host from a provider. They initially did all my setup, and I do the simple maintenance I need. A short time ago, the spam increased dramatically. Others on this list reported it, and a common suggested problem was that the installed Spamassassin was badly out of

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 07:22:05 -0400 (EDT) Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com wrote: I was wondering if it's possible to install an alternate version of Spamassassin and verify that it's working properly before burning my bridge on the outdated (but working) version I've currently got installed. It

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Pat Traynor
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: It possible. But this, of course, depends on your skills. For example, if you ever need a newer Perl library/module, you will also need to install it. My perl installation is at the latest version as of about a month ago (5.3.12), and I'm

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 07:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com wrote: Why wont you try on a Virtual machine first? Install the old Fedora and try it out. Well, THAT is probably well beyond my capabilities - getting a server completely installed to the point of it accepting outside

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 6/1/11 7:37 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: My perl installation is at the latest version as of about a month ago (5.3.12), and I'm comfortable installing modules. I believe for current versions of SA, the minimum perl is 5.8.8 and, the modules, especially the sha and crypt modules need to be

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Pat Traynor
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/1/11 7:37 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: My perl installation is at the latest version as of about a month ago (5.3.12), and I'm comfortable installing modules. I believe for current versions of SA, the minimum perl is 5.8.8 See, this is why I

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 6/1/11 8:43 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: See, this is why I really shouldn't be left alone in front of a keyboard. My perl installation is 5.12.3, NOT 5.3.12. Sigh... it should be 'safe' to backup the ../site_perl* and ../lib/perl5* libraries, and try to upgrade the perl modules first. newer

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Pat Traynor
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/1/11 8:43 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: See, this is why I really shouldn't be left alone in front of a keyboard. My perl installation is 5.12.3, NOT 5.3.12. Sigh... it should be 'safe' to backup the ../site_perl* and ../lib/perl5* libraries, and

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/1/2011 7:22 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: Here's my situation: I lease a host from a provider. They initially did all my setup, and I do the simple maintenance I need. A short time ago, the spam increased dramatically. Others on this list reported it, and a common suggested problem was that

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

2011-06-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:47:28 -0400, Michael Scheidell michael.scheid...@secnap.com wrote: it should be 'safe' to backup the ../site_perl* and ../lib/perl5* libraries, and try to upgrade the perl modules first. newer pm's SHOULD work with old SA. it will just be unsafe to restore it, correct way