Re: [vps-mail] vinstall versions

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:35:41AM -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> S> Scott (et al),
> 
> S> Is there any way to know what versions vinstall will be installing? It 
> S> would have been nice to have that as part of the descriptions, but it 
> S> isn't there. Is there some geekier way to look?
> 
> You can look at the actual scripts for the vinstalls

And this is currently the only semi-reliable way. We often brand the
tarball with the version also. You'll see those in /usr/local/contrib
(e.g., Mail-SpamAssassin-2.54.tar.gz, etc.).

The software isn't always pulled from /usr/local/contrib, however
(sometimes it's copied or linked from a skeleton hierarchy), so the
vinstall script itself is probably the most consistent way (though we
occasionally have errors where we forget to update the version string
in the vinstall also).

Scott
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