Well, I just went to try and install SpamAssassin 2.5. No Joy. I'm pretty sure (though not 100% positive) it's unhappy with the stock 5.005_03 install of perl I have. Yeah, I know it's old, but it works OK. More to the point, other stuff depends on it, and upgrading to a newer version is going to be interesting. I think I've only got to upgrade mod_perl, but I'm not sure, and I'm definitely not sure what background stuff might go bang.
OTOH, this version of Redhat is going out of support soon, and is so far behind the times that I suppose I might as well give up on the idea of going with RPMs and just handle everything standalone. Or completely rev the server, but that's... unappealing.
Posted by Dan at February 23, 2003 03:59 PM | TrackBack (0)Dan, just did the upgrade on Friday night (Red Hat 6.2).
http://www.galacticslacker.com/cgi-bin/re?op=expand&message=199&folder=GalacticSlacker%20HQ&expand=3#199
I think I got some good performance gains in my other software from moving from 5.00503 to 5.8.0 (makes ya wonder if 5.6 would have been even faster).
Posted by: havoc at February 24, 2003 10:29 AMI expect 5.6.0 would've been slower, for a number of reasons, but that's OK.
I did do an install of 5.8.0 last night, in what's supposed to be a completely parallel universe--looks like SpamAssassin is happy for the moment, and it doesn't affect my Apache build, so for now I'm happy. I should slowly transition over the rest of the stuff, so that I can symlink /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl. (Which the 5.8.0 build helpfully installed even though I told it not to...)