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["Rynhart, Patrick" <address@concealed>]

On 11/06/17 4:45 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> For what it's worth, I NEVER install Sympa (or anything particularly 
> complex) from a package.  Inevitably, the packaged version is 
> out-of-date, and often mucked up.  And the original documentation is 
> generally better.
>
> On our list server, perl, mysql, postfix, anti-spam & anti-virus, and 
> sympa are all built from the source tarballs, using the old standby 
> ./configure; make; make test; make install.
>
> Particularly for Sympa (and anything perl), cpan does a much better 
> job than native package managers.  (I like apt a lot, but package 
> maintainers, not so much).
>
> Miles Fidelman
Absolutely, +1 for this approach.  Do everything clean (i.e. from 
source) :-)

Thanks,

Patrick

(Systems Engineer, ITS Massey University)