This page is at best a very rough guide to the potential efforts to get MailScanner included in Fedora. While MailScanner itself is relatively simple, there are a number of dependencies and add-on modules that may involve significant work.
SIG Mailing List
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner-sig
Significant mailing list threads to read
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091460.html http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091469.html http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091496.html
List of MailScanner RPMs Required and their Status Within Fedora
| Package Name | Version Provided by MailScanner | Minimum Version Required | Packaged for Fedora | Version in Fedora | Notes |
| mailscanner | 4.76.25-1.noarch.rpm | The mailscanner rpm contains prepackaged scripts. In Fedora this needs to be repackaged to include documentation and any additional scripts. | |||
| perl-Archive-Zip | 1.16-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-bignum | 0.23-1.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Compress-Zlib | 1.41-2.src.rpm | MailScanner provided package does not due to error while conducting tests.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Convert-BinHex | 1.119-3.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Convert-TNEF | 0.17-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-DBD-SQLite | 1.21-1.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-DBI | 1.607-1.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Digest-HMAC | 1.01-1.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Digest-MD5 | 2.36-3.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Digest-SHA1 | 2.11-2.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker | 6.50-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-File-Spec | 0.82-3.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Filesys-Df | 0.90-2.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-File-Temp | 0.20-4.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Getopt-Long | 2.38-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-HTML-Parser | 3.56-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-HTML-Tagset | 3.03-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-IO | 1.2301-4.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-IO-stringy | 2.110-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-MailTools | 2.04-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Math-BigInt | 1.89-1.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Math-BigRat | 0.22-1.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Mime-Base64 | 3.07-3.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Mime-tools | 5.427-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Net-CIDR | 0.13-1.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Net-DNS | 0.65-1.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Net-IP | 1.25-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-OLE-Storage | 0.16-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Pod-Escapes | 1.04-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Pod-Simple | 3.05-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Scaler-Lists-Utils | 1.19-3.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Storable | 2.16-3.src.rpm | MailScanner provided package does not due to error while conducting tests.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Sys-Hostname-Long | 1.4-2.src.rpm |
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Sys-Syslog | 0.27-1.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Test-Harness | 2.64-3.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Test-Pod | 1.26-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Test-Simple | 0.86-2.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-TimeDate | 1.16-4.src.rpm | Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process.
Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| perl-Time-HiRes | 1.9707-3.src.rpm | MailScanner provided packages will not build due to architecture dependant libraries. But will build correctly if the Buildarch parameter is commented out or removed from the SRPM.
Packaged as noarch SRPM by MailScanner which is rebuilt by an install script when using the standard MailScanner installation process. Documentation deliberately left out when rebuilding MailScanner provided SRPMs | |||
| tnef | 1.4.5-1.i386.rpm
x86_64.rpm |
Both 32bit and 64bit precompiled and build RPMs provided by MailScanner. Does not provide RPMs for ppc. |
Potential Problem Packages that might require some perl packaging expertise
- perl-Compress-Zlib-1.41-2
- perl-Storable-2.16-3
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091510.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/05/msg124890.html