On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:16 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > FWIW, Dale's been mailing me privately where I've been answering, but just for > everyone's info: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:04:18AM -0700, Cabell, Dale wrote: > > Where do I put the tar? After I untar it, where do I execute the > > rpmbuild from? > > "rpmbuild -tb" says to build a binary RPM from a tarball. So: > > rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.3.tar.gz > > will build the RPMs from the named tarball. Depending on your environment, > you may need to be root and the packages may appear under /usr/src/redhat. > > The download page also mentions the '--define "srcext .bz2"' option which you > need if you download the bz2 tarball instead of the gz one. ---- given the methodology that MailScanner uses, I don't think that I would do that (compile an rpm from a tarball). Unless you know something that I don't know that is.
The MailScanner download for rpm based system is indeed a tarball which you have to extract and then run the 'install.sh' script which is a perl program which actually builds a lot of requisite perl packages and finally mailscanner itself into rpm files and installs the rpm's (or not if you already have newer versions of the rpm's installed already). It's a sophisticated, comprehensive approach to installing a whole lot of stuff and doing it the way the system is configured (via rpm). Craig
