Matthias Leisi writes: > Justin Mason schrieb: > > | if you check the bug (can't recall the number right now), there's plans to > | make a tarball available of _just_ the rules, alongside the distro at > | release time. That way, that kind of users can dl the tarball and > | install it using "sa-update --install SpamAssassin-rules-349584.tgz" (or > | whatever). > > How would a typical distro handle this (or how are they thought to > handle it)? Pack the rules tarball at date of packaging? That should be > acceptable for most, as this would be basically the same as today (two > tarballs instead of one, but from the same source).
Yes, that's what I was thinking. > A rules package from the same source as the app package is definitely > acceptable. Would / should updated rules packages be made available > through the same channels as the initial one? (IMO, this *should* be > done - through distros, CPAN, ...). I'm fine with doing that ;) https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5752 is the bug. could you add that recommendation there? --j.
