jdow wrote: > > OK, when the storage structure of the tarball based package you want > changes how do you extirpate the old and insert the new without the > rather depressingly familiar dual SpamAssassin install? (Not that the > package systems like RPM always get it right. They do better than most > if you stick with the RPMs.)
The "depressingly familiar dual install" for install-from-tarball users only comes about when you don't build the same way. i.e.: if you built with PREFIX=/usr one time, make sure you pass the same *every* time. I've been building from source tarball since SA 2.40 and I've never had a dual-install problem when installing this way. On the other hand back in 2.31 era I was using cpan, and I *did* get a dual install once. However that was CPAN deciding to install a whole new copy of perl to put SA into because the required perl version was screwed up. After that I ditched CPAN and went to pure tarball installs and have never regretted it.
