ANN: bogofilter 1.0.1-pre RPMs with near-zero dependencies

[Matthias Andree]

bogo at escom.com writes:

> I've tested both RPMs on the following three platforms:
>
> Red Hat 7.1	Dell ???, uname -m shows i686
> Red Hat 9	noname Duron box
> CentOS 3.6	Dell Poweredge 350 Celeron

Thank you.

> Both RPMs install and work perfectly on all three systems.
> I tested each configuration as follows:
>
>   set bogofilter_dir=/var/spool/bogofilter in /etc/bogofilter.cf
>   cd /var/spool/bogofilter
>   cat wordlist.txt | bogoutil -l wordlist.db
>   bogofilter -v < messagefile
>
> Thanks very much!   Will this be a regular build for each release?
> I assume eventually these will show up on the bogofilter download page,
> right?

RHL 7.1, too?  Great, that's more than I expected.

While it's not my call, if I were the systems administrator, I'd upgrade
from 7.1 or 9.0 to a supported version. There haven't been bug fixes for
RHL 7.1 and RHL 9 in years, and running systems with potentially unfixed
kernel or binary bugs isn't exactly a good idea when it comes to
networked application. (Standalone is a different thing.)

As to your question: I have made a script that builds static versions of
the database libraries that work on older systems and I have made a few
changes to the "make rpm" target in bogofilter's CVS repository,
building these RPMs is easy.  Chances are we'll be providing these for a
while (there is no statement as to perpetuity with OSS projects).

We're not sure yet if we'll rename the RPMs and if we'll build only
these static versions, or if we'll also have bogofilter RPMs that
require sqlite3 or db42 RPMs (they make for a smaller download and less
memory footprint at run-time).

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Matthias Andree