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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 - (Date last edited - 15/07/11)

Package Name Version Provided by MailScanner Minimum Version Required Packaged for Fedora Version in Fedora Notes
mailscanner 4.76.25-1.noarch.rpm Not yet 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 Yes 1.23-1.fc10 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 Not required This is bundled by the version of perl shipped on Fedora. 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 Yes 2.008-68.fc10 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 Yes 1.119-8.fc9 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 Yes 0.17-8.fc9 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 Yes 1.23-1.fc10 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 Yes 1.607-1.fc10 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 Yes 1.01-19.fc10 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 Not required This is bundled by the version of perl shipped on Fedora. 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 Yes 2.11-7.fc9 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 Yes 6.36-68.fc10 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. We probably need to ask the maintainer to update to the latest version.

perl-File-Spec 0.82-3.src.rpm Yes perl-PathTools-3.33-1.fc15 Shipped by perl-PathTools, 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 Yes 0.92-3 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 Not required This is bundled by the version of perl shipped on Fedora. 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 See Notes 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-Gui-Long and perl-Getopt-long-descriptive are available but not this specific name.

perl-HTML-Parser 3.56-2.src.rpm Yes 3.59-1.fc10 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 Yes 3.10-8.fc9 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 See notes 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. There is a perl-io-all - need to look at source.

perl-IO-stringy 2.110-2.src.rpm Yes 2.110-8.fc9 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 Yes 2.04-1.fc10 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 Not Required This is bundled by the version of perl shipped on Fedora. 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 Not required This is bundled by the version of perl shipped on Fedora. 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 Not required This is bundled by the version of perl shipped on Fedora. 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 Yes 5.427-1 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 Yes 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-Lite-0.20-4.fc9 is available, need to see if it's same/similar.

perl-Net-DNS 0.65-1.src.rpm Yes 0.63-4.fc10 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. We probably need to get the maintainer to update to latest.

perl-Net-IP 1.25-2.src.rpm Yes 1.25-8.fc9 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 See notes 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_Lite-0.17-1.fc10 is included, need to check further

perl-Pod-Escapes 1.04-2.src.rpm Yes 1.104-68.fc10 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 Yes 3.07-68.fc10 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 Yes 1.23-1.fc15 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 No 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 No Review request

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 No 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 Yes 3.16-68.fc10 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 Yes 1.26-4.fc9 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 Yes 0.86-68.fc10 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 Yes 1.16-9.fc10 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 No 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

No Review request Both 32bit and 64bit precompiled and build RPMs provided by MailScanner. Does not provide RPMs for ppc. This is not in Fedora - at least not by that name.

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


Contributors willing to work to make this happen