Bug 57275 – mail-filter/spamass-milter-0.3.0 ebuild (plus an ebuild to build version from CVS)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Steven Green 2004-07-16 04:07:44 UTC]

The release version of spamass-milter 0.2.0 is over a year old, and there are some serious bugs that have been fixed.  I have been following the spamass-milter mailing list and most people seem to think the CVS version is more stable, but I don't see manby signs of the author making an official release any time soon, so put together this ebuild that checks the code out of CVS.

It makes use of the existing files in /usr/portage/mail-filter/spamass-milter/files, in particular the conf.rc and init.d files.

This is my first attempt at making an ebuild, so may have mistakes.  I started with the existing ebuild (spamass-milter-0.2.0.ebuild), made it inherit cvs and set up the appropriate ECVS variables.  I couldn't get the RSA host key check to work, so have commented that out for now.  I added code to the compile() function to run the various autoconf commands needed to make the configure script.

I wasn't sure what version to give it.  The CVS version identifies itself as 0.2.0+cvs, but that doesn't really fit in with the gentoo versioning, went for 0.2.0-p1, it might be better to make it 0.2.1-rc1 or something instead.

I have only tested it on my own system, x86.

[Comment 1 Steven Green 2004-07-16 04:11:00 UTC]

Created attachment 35539 [details]
mail-filter/spamass-milter upgrade to CVS version

[Comment 2 Steven Green 2004-07-16 04:19:51 UTC]

See also http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23136

[Comment 3 Darren Spruell 2004-07-26 14:31:46 UTC]

We currently use spamass-milter-0.2.0 on a mail gateway. Every so often we stop receiving mail and get a lot of these lines in our logs: "Milter (spamassassin): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by /var/run/spamass-milter.sock"

A fix for this would be nice. There are also several "other" errors that we're attributing to the unstability of this version.

What's the likelyhood of getting this ebuild into Portage, at least as a ~keyword?

[Comment 4 Steph L 2005-02-08 06:37:21 UTC]

Better update the ebuild to version 0.3.0 just released :
http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3595

[Comment 5 Steven Green 2005-02-08 12:04:51 UTC]

Created attachment 50772 [details]
mail-filter/spamass-milter 0.3.0 ebuild

I have attached an ebuild for 0.3.0.	It is the same as the old 0.2.0 ebuild,
but renamed and with the text for the readme changed to us ${PF} instead of
hard coded path.

It seems to be running fine on a machine here (x86), but not had time for any
thorough testing.

[Comment 6 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2005-02-09 09:33:10 UTC]

I'm taking over the spamass-milter maintainership in gentoo.
Ebuild soon, stay tuned.

[Comment 7 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2005-02-09 10:34:58 UTC]

spamass-milter-0.3.0 in portage with KEYWORDS ~x86 ~sparc.
Please test and report back, basic testing for me is sane with SA 3.0.2-r1.
I'll probably make -r1 in a couple of days with revamped initscripts for dropped privs.

[Comment 8 Burdeiny Michael 2005-10-13 04:16:45 UTC]

I tested 0.3.0 version on amd64. It works fine :)

[Comment 9 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2005-10-13 06:39:01 UTC]

Applied ~amd64 KEYWORDS, thanks for the report.