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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:36:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel M. Zimmerman" <dmz@tffenterprises.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.50_1
Message-ID:  <20030306183602.K73067@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1046975218@[10.1.230.254]>
References:  <2147483647.1046975218@[10.1.230.254]>

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I'm not sure "restored" is the right way to phrase this, but yes, this is
a flaw in the port, and yes, it will be corrected.

Doug

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Daniel M. Zimmerman wrote:

> A note about this port - I installed the 2.50_1 port with portupgrade,
> having previously installed the 2.44 port. I knew that there would be
> differences in the default way it reported spam, so I changed my
> "/usr/local/etc/mail/local.cf" (the local configuration file, which
> contained some configuration options in addition to some custom rules I'd
> written) in advance. Unfortunately, the new install wiped out that local
> configuration file and replaced it with the "local.cf" in the SpamAssassin
> distribution.
>
> Previous versions of the port didn't behave that way, and in general it has
> been my experience that ports don't behave that way - if there's a local
> configuration file, it's left alone, and the local configuration file from
> the distribution is installed as (in this case) "local.cf-dist" or the
> like. Can this behavior be restored for future versions of the SpamAssassin
> port?
>
> Thanks...
>
> -Dan
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Daniel M. Zimmerman                                TFF Enterprises
> M/S 256-80 - Caltech                http://www.tffenterprises.com/
> Pasadena, California  91125  USA            dmz@tffenterprises.com
>
>

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