On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:38:26 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, RW wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:57:14 -0800 (PST) > > John Hardin wrote: > > > >> I don't think this is a problem in base SA, it sounds more like a > >> problem in the packaging addon code provided by RH/Centos. > > > > It does sound like that might have been exposed by a SA regression: > > > > https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4941 >
> ...indicates that sa-update *is* deleting good rules if the Internet > is inaccessible, so there seems to be two issues here: a bug in > sa-update that deletes good rules, The rules aren't being deleted. What the OP reported is that the sa-update failure leaves behind an empty 3.004001 directory which overrides rules installed from package. It's not clear whether it's a regression or a corner case that was missed when bug 4941 was fixed, but if the OP is right that it came in with the linked commit, then it sounds like a regression.
