On 11/30/2014 04:08 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 20:39 -0800, John Hardin wrote:
But this effectively means we cannot add new features to SA conditionals
because they might do this to older installs.
Can SA set a $too_old flag to say that that the Perl version number
check failed?
If so, it seems the me that, at runtime, it would be reasonable to
exclude new version-dependent features if either the $too_old flag is
set or the version number is lower than the feature needs. It would also
be reasonable for sa_update to report the exclusion since that serves to
remind the sysadmin to upgrade.
So just so I understand something is it expected that those of us with
RHEL 5.11 and RHEL 6.6 servers are expected to upgrade our perl versions
just for spamassassin's sa-update? The whole idea of running servers
with those versions of server software is for stability. I have no
intention of running any other version of perl then what comes with the
OS. As such I do not expect to get any warnings period. Spamassassin or
sa-update putting out warnings as a public service is crazy.
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Paul (ga...@nurdog.com)
