At 02:04 PM 1.23.2004 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: >On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote: >> I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of >> Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl >> version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for >> freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had success with >> installing it on a 4.8 system? > >FreeBSD 4.8 should be recent enough that you can use a modern ports >tree without the CONFLICTS feature causing problems, so use CVSUP to >update your ports tree to the current version. From there, install >/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8, and then run "use.perl port". > >That should give you the latest version of Perl, from which you can >then install the p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port (or spamass-milter, or >amavisd, or whatever). You can also try installing the software via >"perl -MCPAN -e shell \;", and do an "install Mail::SpamAssassin", but >the ports mechanism is better tested. > >-- >-Chuck >
For SA-2.6x, perl5.003 is fine. But as of yesterday, the developer advised me that when SA-3.0 is released, perl5.6.1 is required and recommended -- see my earlier post. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator Sage American http://www.sage-american.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"