On Friday 23 July 2004 01:17 pm, M�rio Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > > That may be a good reason to use the "ask" option to > > following dependencies, especially if using an older version > > of Perl. If it wanted a newer version of some module that's > > bundled with Perl, then it will happily upgrade Perl for you. > > I have to say I prefer to do that one manually. > > I secon that. > CPAN is a real shit. Only good for small modules with no dependencies. > I've already tried ti install SpamAssassin from CPAN several times in > differnt Unixes and always fails somewhere along the process. > I always end to install the prerequisites modules first, and finaly > SpamAssassin. > > Regards, > M�rio Gamito
On the other hand, the ONLY way I install Spam-Assassin is via cpan and as long as you can get a good list of mirrors it has NEVER had a problem with prereqs. On the several mail servers I maintain it is SOP to install SA this way, and I only wish other installers we half as smart. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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