On 3/16/2010 8:27 AM, RW wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:10:26 -0700 (PDT) > Toralf <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> At my stable Gentoo I see this : >> >> n22 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005 # head -n 1 >> updates_spamassassin_org.cf # UPDATE version 895075 >> >> and now I'm wondering whether I can compare that string with sth. at >> http://spamassassin.apache.org/ ? >> > If you are looking for a way determine whether sa-update needs to be > run, you don't need to; sa-update already does this through DNS. > > And more to the point, you can manually look it up if you like.
dig txt 5.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org or on windows: nslookup -type=txt 5.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org This returns: "895075" Since 3.2.5 is now not the current branch of SpamAssassin, it is now the "previous release", this number is not going to change frequently. Backporting of rules to the previous release happens, but only for significant problems. Things like RBL shutdowns, major logic bombs like the 2010 date issue, etc, are likely to be added. Totally new rules are not likely to be pushed to it. The team tends not to mess with the previous release too much, because those running it are likely to be very conservative, otherwise they'd have upgraded to 3.3.0 already. Since the user base is conservative, the rule pushes are also conservative. If you want the current rules, those are for the 3.3.x tree, so upgrade to the 3.3.0.
