ports/108934: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin: spamassassin uses /var/lib/spamassassin directory but /var/lib doesn't exist on FreeBSD

[Michael Scheidell]

The following reply was made to PR ports/108934; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Scheidell <scheidell at secnap.net>
To: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/108934: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin: spamassassin uses /var/lib/spamassassin
 directory but /var/lib doesn't exist on FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:53:38 -0400

 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
 > run sa-update. It will create
 > /var/lib/spamassassin/<version>/updates_spamassassin_org/ directory, where
 > it puts updated rules, if it founds them. spamassassin and spamd later check
 > these rules instead of those in /usr/local/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf
 >
 > You may need older installation of spamassassin to verify this, I'm not sure
 > that 3.1.8 has some updates, but I was able to update rules for 3.1.7 at
 > least twice.
 >
 >   
 I think some of this was discussed on SpamAssassin list.
 If you actually let sa-update put the files in /var/lib/spamassassin, it 
 REPLACES original files.
 
 I think the suggestion was to run sa-update like this:
 
  sa-update --updatedir /usr/local/share/spamassassin
 
 my suggestion to patch sa-update to do that was not met with enthusiasm.
 
 try the above, things should work better, and I will look at patching 
 sa-update for the ports only.
 
 
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