http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5751





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-12-19 14:11 -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> after seeing the uses of rule updates in the field, I'd say it'd be more
> appropriate if updates.spamassassin *was* a required channel, triggering
> additional paranoia about leaving empty rules dirs behind.  We could possibly
> add a command-line switch to disable this error-checking, but IMO it's better
> than allowing PEBKAC errors so easily...

I'm going to be pretty -1 about that.  The whole goal we were going for was to
separate engine from rules.  Requiring that people get our rules is a full 180
from the original goal.

I also think that the whole default rules dir/local state dir override thing is
a bit of a kluge and leads to problems like this.  Which gets me back to the
"only make rules available via sa-update" idea, which should make everyone
happy.  :)

> > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates has this covered as the very
> top item in the FAQ 
> > section, btw. 
> 
> is that linked from the *real* FAQ anywhere?

It is the real faq, for sa-update anyway.  It's in the man page. :)

I don't know if it's linked from the general SA FAQ.

> > IMO, this would be addressed by us not including any rules w/ the standard
> distro and requiring all 
> > rules to come from the update system.  It also fixes our issue whereby we 
> > have
> multiple areas for rules 
> > for the same SA version (ie: rules/branches/3.2 and branches/3.2/rules ...)
> 
> hmm.... might be worth considering this for 3.3.0.  how's about opening a bug 
> to
> discuss it?

Sure. bug 5752. :)



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