On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 05:31, jdow wrote: > From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --On Saturday, August 13, 2005 6:58 PM -0400 Theo Van Dinter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 03:07:14PM +0530, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > >>> When I build the rpm from the spec file ( on fedora core 3 ) the > >>> spamassassin-tools rpm is not created. Was it not a part of SA. > >> > >> The tools RPM was deprecated. There was very little in there that wasn't > >> development related, which is better taken out of SVN or the tarball, > >> so ... > > > > I'd recommend adding an Obsoletes tag for the deprecated subpackage, then. > > Otherwise the 3.0.4 subpackage gets orphaned and blocks updating of the > > surviving subpackages. > > What sub-packages that a CPAN style update won't catch? > CPAN style updates are not good for System Adminstrators , who find it easier to create rpm, scp to all the machines and run rpm -Uvh for all. Especially when you have more than 7-8 machines to manage
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