AMaViS (amavisd and amavisd-new) RPM packages for Red Hat Linux systems

Contents
Introduction
Thanks
amavisd packages
amavisd-new packages
Notes
TO DO

Introduction

Note: The CPAN modules packages don't build under RHL 8.0 yet. As of Feb 5 2003 I'm working on it, I hope having news soon (in the form of new package releases). The tables below describe the package availability for that release as a reference.

Note: According to posts in the rpm-list mailing list, in newer releases of Red Hat Linux it is recommeded (necessary?) to use the new rpmbuild command (shipped inside the rpm-build package) instead of rpm when (re)building RPM packages.

A year ago I packaged the current at that time amavisd (the client - daemonized Perl server incarnation of AMaViS [A mail Virus Scanner]) snapshot and all the required dependencies (programs and CPAN modules) using RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) so I could use them on my Red Hat Linux (RHL) 6.2 personal system interfacing with the Postfix MTA and the H+BEDV AntiVir Personal Edition antivirus. Later, I published them in the hope they were useful to others; they proved themselves very popular as the logs of my hosting account testify although they were not perfect nor did I kept the published copies current.

NOTE: If you are looking for the old versions of these packages, you can find them here.

Some months ago I started to update all the packages on my system, working on them as my free time allowed. This new package set and this page are the results of that work.

I've too started to package Mark Martinec's amavisd branch called amavisd-new. The author created it for use on a ISP and is actively maintaning the software so, IMHO, robustness, scalability and versatility are much welcome amavisd-new features. It basically needs the same programs (unpackers, decoders, Perl modules) as amavisd and depends on a few extra Perl modules. As you will note, my packaging efforts (applying patches seen in the amavis-users mailing list, etc.) are slowly shifting to this branch, particularly to its latest snapshot.

Some general guidelines to understand the decisions I took and thay may help in building/installing the packages:

I try to support as many RHL releases as I can (it is mainly dictated by the Perl version supported by the main programs and the CPAN mode dependencies and by the fact I'm still a happy RHL 6.2 user).
Hence, I provide only source RPM packages. You will need to rebuild them on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.
When a given RHL release ships a package of some piece of software that fills the amavisd[-new] dependency requeriments we just recommend its installation.
Else a package is provided.
The situation described above may change as you consider the different supported RHL releases (say, Red Hat began shipping package A with RHL release x.y; or ships with a version of package B that satisfy amavisd[-new] requeriments just since RHL release m.n while all previous versions didn't ).
The release numbering scheme I use for the packages tries to take this in account while at the same time allowing the system to be upgraded to newer (already published or future) RHL releases. e.g.: if you build package C source package C-x.62rm.src.rpm under RHL 6.2 you will obtain a binary package called C-x.62rm.i386.rpm, if you rebuild it under RHL 7.3 you will obtain a C-x.73rm.i386.rpm binary package.
All the source packages were built on a RHL 6.2 system using rpm version 3.0.5 and are signed with my GPG key. The public key can be downloaded from here.
The packages were tested under RHL 6.2 and RHL 7.3. Reports of how they work on other release are welcome.

Thanks

To the amavis/amavis-perl/amavisd development team.
To Mark Martinec, developer of amavisd-new.
To Peter Kelly for his help and encouragement, testing, reporting several problems and even allowing me to access one of his test servers.
To the amavis-user mailing list community.

amavisd packages

Main package(s)

Project web site: http://www.amavis.org/

Packages of two versions of amavisd are being made available: A package of snapshot 20020300 and a package of snapshot 20020531. The differences between them (apart from the advances made upstream by the amavisd development team) are:

In the 20020531 snapshot, the Unix user amavisd run as was changed upstream from vscan to amavis. The respective package implements the ability to rename the Unix user providing a transition as seamless as possible during the upgrade process if a previous version (of the package) is already installed; the only step that isn't performed is to change the 'user' parameter value in the following line of Postfix's master.cf file (I didn't dare to mess with such an important configuraton file):
```
vscan unix - n n - 10 pipe flags=q user=vscan argv=/usr/sbin/amavis ${sender} ${recipient}
                                        -----
                                          ^
                                          |__ change this to amavis
```
this should be done manually (and then Postfix must be restarted) so the mail delivering flow from Postfix to the amavisd daemon can continue normally.

Users installing the package for the first time aren't affected by this change (they will need to manually modify the Postfix configuration as per the README.postfix file instructions, of course).
In the 20020300 snapshot package it is possible (see item below) to apply a file black list patch created by Gregory Ade that can be found in the contrib section of the amavis web site. As the patch wasn't updated to the 20020531 snapshot, I ported it to snapshot 20020531 so the option to apply it is now also available in the newer package. Use it at your own risk :-D.

For both amavisd packages, the following notes apply (copied from the top of the spec files):

# This rpm package allows you to run the AMaViS test suite during the
# package build stage. The test suite is located in the test/ dir.
# By default it's turned off because enabling it will cancel any
# package building process after the suite execution finishes.
# You can enable it with a rpm|rpmbuild invocation command line like
#  rpm -bx|--recompile|--rebuild... --define 'RUN_TESTS 1'

...

# Optional feature: Rejection of file attachments by matching filenames
# against a known list of virus spreaders. It's done by the file black-
# list patch by Gregory Ade <gkade AT bigbrother DOT net>. Turned off by
# default, enable it with a rpm|rpmbuild invocation command line like
#  rpm -bx|--recompile|--rebuild... --define 'FILE_BLACKLIST 1'

As it can be seen I added the possiblity to run the very basic amavisd test suite at build time, if you activate it then the build process aborts after its execution ends so you can examine the amavisd-test.log file located under <your RPM build dir>/amavisd-snapshot-2002mmdd/tests/ directory.

amavisd 20020300 snapshot: Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server. The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

amavisd 20020531 snapshot: Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server. The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

Dependencies: External programs

Program	RPM package name	RPM package version	Package availability for different RHL releases
Program	RPM package name	RPM package version	RHL 6.2	RHL 7	RHL 7.1	RHL 7.2	RHL 7.3	RHL 8.0
arc	`arc`	`5.21e-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
nomarch	`nomarch`	`1.2-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
bzip2	`bzip2`	`-`	`0.9.5d-2`	`1.0.1-3`	`1.0.1-3`	`1.0.1-4`	`1.0.2-2`	`1.0.2-5`
file	`file`	`3.33-0.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild		`3.33-1`	`3.35-2`	`3.37-5`	`3.37-8`
lha	`lha`	`1.14i-3.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild				`1.14i-4`	`1.14i-7`
compress	`ncompress`	`-`	`4.2.4-15`	`4.2.4-20`	`4.2.4-21`	`4.2.4-24`	`4.2.4-28`	`4.2.4-31`
unarj	`unarj`	`2.43-5.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild		`2.43-6`	`2.43-8`	`2.43-10`	`2.43-12`
unrar	`unrar`	`2.71-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
zoo	`zoo`	`2.10-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild

Dependencies: Perl modules

Perl module	RPM package name	RPM package version	Package availability for different RHL releases
Perl module	RPM package name	RPM package version	RHL 6.2	RHL 7	RHL 7.1	RHL 7.2	RHL 7.3	RHL 8.0
Archive::Tar	`perl-Archive-Tar`	`0.22-2.xxrm.amavis`	dload & rebuild				`0.22-15`	`0.22-26`
Archive::Zip	`perl-Archive-Zip`	`1.01-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Compress::Zlib	`perl-Compress-Zlib`	`1.16-3.xxrm`	dload & rebuild					`1.16-8`
Convert::TNEF	`perl-Convert-TNEF`	`0.17-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Convert::UUlib	`perl-Convert-UUlib`	`0.201-4.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
IO::stringy	`perl-IO-stringy`	`2.108-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
libnet	`perl-libnet`	`2:1.12-7.xxrm`	dload & rebuild			dload & rebuild (warning: this RHL release includes older `1.0703-6`)	dload & rebuild (warning: this RHL release includes older `1:1.0901-17`)	`1.12` (inside `perl-2:5.8.0-55`)
MailTools	`perl-MailTools`	`1.15-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
MIME::Base64	`perl-MIME-Base64`	`2.12-5.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild			`2.12-6`	`2.12-14`	`2.12` (inside `perl-2:5.8.0-55`)
MIME::tools	`perl-MIME-tools`	`5.411-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Unix::Syslog	`perl-Unix-Syslog`	`0.98-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild

Legend

: This release of RHL includes this software packaged in RPM form.
: This CPAN module is included in the RPM package of Perl in this release of RHL.
xx: This part of the package release number will represent the RHL release it was built for (62, 70, etc.).

amavisd-new packages

Project web site: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

Main package(s)

Packages of two versions of amavisd-new are being made available: A package of snapshot 20020517 and a package of snapshot 20020630.

This is the list of patches created after the release of the 20020630 snapshot of amavisd-new and included in the corresponding RPM package:

Patch for rfc2822_timestamp subroutine if the "1e" format token causes problems. See this thread. Note: This patch is included but isn't applied by default.
Support for nomarch to do the arc unpacking instead of arc. See this message.
Miscellaneous doc and cleanup modifications (delete notify via pipe override, document daemonize and localpart_is_case_sensitive vars, set pid_file, daemon_user and daemon_group vars), some of them are detailed in the Known problems with amavisd-new-20020630 and Tips and FAQ -- general sections of the amavisd-new web page.
unrar unpacking loop bug. See this thread. Status: do_unrar() patch as sent by Anton Berezin applied, would be nice to get the patch made by Mark fixing a similar problem in other unpacking routines
Changes in the RE used to process the output of H+BEDV AntiVir so it can cope with changes in the output of later versions. See this thread.
A new RE to process the output of NAI uvscan Antivirus. See this thread.
Fixes for some typos in the documentation
- "README.customization"->"README.customize" (amavis/amavisd.in, amavis/notify/{sender,admin,recip}), see this thread
- "README.postfix"->"README.performance" (README.performance).
In the older 20020517 snapshot Mark included the means to decide at build time if one wanted the anti SPAM features available in the final daemon (if you choose to have it then you additionally needed SpamAssasin and Vipul's Razor), I added to the spec file of the RPM package the ability to make this choice by using a command line switch when invoking rpm to build the binary package (see below).
For the 20020630 snapshot Mark had no enough free time to give this choice and he just shipped the SPAM-filtering-enabled version. I updated the relevant patch to make it work with this newer snapshot.

Be warned this patch is totally un-official and use it at your own risk.
If you don't want to apply the patch (that is, you want to get the anti-SPAM features, leaving the original source code untouched), you should use a rpm (or rpmbuild) command line switch when rebuilding the package, see below.
This is the relevant part of the spec files:
```
# Optional: Activate the SPAM rejection features (via SpamAssassin
# and Razor) of amavisd-new. Disabled by default, enable it with a
# rpm|rpmbuild invocation command line like
# rpm -bx|--rebuild perl-MIME-tools... --define 'SPAM_CHECKS 1'
```

amavisd-new 20020517 snapshot: Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server. The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

amavisd-new 20020630 snapshot: Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server. The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

Dependencies: External programs

Program	RPM package name	RPM package version	Package availability for different RHL releases
Program	RPM package name	RPM package version	RHL 6.2	RHL 7	RHL 7.1	RHL 7.2	RHL 7.3	RHL 8.0
arc	`arc`	`5.21e-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
nomarch	`nomarch`	`1.2-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
bzip2	`bzip2`	`-`	`0.9.5d-2`	`1.0.1-3`	`1.0.1-3`	`1.0.1-4`	`1.0.2-2`	`1.0.2-5`
file	`file`	`3.33-0.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild		`3.33-1`	`3.35-2`	`3.37-5`	`3.37-8`
lha	`lha`	`1.14i-3.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild				`1.14i-4`	`1.14i-7`
compress	`ncompress`	`-`	`4.2.4-15`	`4.2.4-20`	`4.2.4-21`	`4.2.4-24`	`4.2.4-28`	`4.2.4-31`
unarj	`unarj`	`2.43-5.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild		`2.43-6`	`2.43-8`	`2.43-10`	`2.43-12`
unrar	`unrar`	`2.71-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
zoo	`zoo`	`2.10-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild

Dependencies: Perl modules

Perl module	RPM package name	RPM package version	Package availability for different RHL releases
Perl module	RPM package name	RPM package version	RHL 6.2	RHL 7	RHL 7.1	RHL 7.2	RHL 7.3	RHL 8.0
Archive::Tar	`perl-Archive-Tar`	`0.22-2.xxrm.amavis`	dload & rebuild				`0.22-15`	`0.22-26`
Archive::Zip	`perl-Archive-Zip`	`1.01-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Compress::Zlib	`perl-Compress-Zlib`	`1.16-3.xxrm`	dload & rebuild					`1.16-8`
Convert::TNEF	`perl-Convert-TNEF`	`0.17-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
IO::stringy	`perl-IO-stringy`	`2.108-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
libnet	`perl-libnet`	`2:1.12-7.xxrm`	dload & rebuild			dload & rebuild (warning: this RHL release includes older `1.0703-6`)	dload & rebuild (warning: this RHL release includes older `1:1.0901-17`)	`1.12` (inside `perl-2:5.8.0-55`)
MailTools	`perl-MailTools`	`1.15-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
MIME::Base64	`perl-MIME-Base64`	`2.12-5.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild			`2.12-6`	`2.12-14`	`2.12` (inside `perl-2:5.8.0-55`)
MIME::tools	`perl-MIME-tools`	`5.411-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Unix::Syslog	`perl-Unix-Syslog`	`0.98-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Net::Server	`perl-Net-Server`	`0.84-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Time::HiRes	`perl-Time-HiRes`	`1.20-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild				`1.20-14`	`1.20-23`
Digest::MD5	`perl-Digest-MD5`	`2.20-0.1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild			`2.13-1`	2.16-15 (RHL errata is `2.20-1`)	`2.20` (inside `perl-2:5.8.0-55`)
Mail::SpamAssassin	`SpamAssassin`	`2.31-6.xxrm`	dload & rebuild					`2.31-16`
Razor	`razor-agents`	`1.20-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild
Digest::SHA1	`perl-Digest-SHA1`	`2.01-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild					`2.01-6`
Digest::HMAC	`perl-Digest-HMAC`	`1.01-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild					`1.01-8`
Net::DNS	`perl-Net-DNS`	`0.24-1.xxrm`	dload & rebuild					`0.26-2`

Legend

Build/Instalallation recipes

In the last days, I faced the need to install amavisd-new 20020630 on a system with a fresh installation of Red Hat Linux 7.3. I experienced the dependancy hell it signifies :-/. So I prepared the following recipes; I hope this helps other users.

Maybe a TODO item for me would be to upload the files necessary so AutoUpdate and/or apt-rpm (other)can be used to manage this in a more automatized way.

Building amavisd-new-postfix-20020630 under RHL 7.3

rebuild arc
rebuild nomarch
rebuild unrar
rebuild zoo
rebuild and install perl-Compress-Zlib (perl-Archive-Zip needs it to build)
rebuild perl-Archive-Zip
rebuild and install perl-IO-stringy (perl-MIME-tools needs it to build)
rebuild and install perl-MailTools (perl-MIME-tools needs it to build)
rebuild and install perl-MIME-tools (perl-Convert-TNEF needs it to build)
rebuild perl-Convert-TNEF
rebuild perl-Unix-Syslog
rebuild perl-Net-Server
if you will select SPAM checking when building amavisd-new-postfix:
rebuild SpamAssassin (you get two packages: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin and SpamAssassin)
if you will select SPAM checking when building amavisd-new-postfix:
rebuild and install perl-Digest-SHA1 (perl-Net-DNS, perl-Digest-HMAC and Razor need it to build)
if you will select SPAM checking when building amavisd-new-postfix:
rebuild and install perl-Digest-HMAC (perl-Net-DNS needs it to build)
if you will select SPAM checking when building amavisd-new-postfix:
rebuild and install perl-Net-DNS (perl-Razor needs it to build)
if you will select SPAM checking when building amavisd-new-postfix:
rebuild razor-agents (you get two packages: perl-Razor and razor-agents)
install arc (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install file from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install bzip2 from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install ncompress from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install lha from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install unarj from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-MIME-Base64 from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Archive-Tar from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Time-HiRes from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Digest-MD5 from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install unrar (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install zoo (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Unix-Syslog (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Convert-TNEF (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Archive-Zip (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
rebuild and install perl-libnet possibly updating the one included with RHL 7.3 (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
install perl-Net-Server (amavisd-new-postfix needs it to build)
rebuild amavisd-new-postfix

Installing amavisd-new-postfix-20020630 under RHL 7.3

install file from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install bzip2 from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install ncompress from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install lha from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install unarj from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install perl-MIME-Base64 from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install perl-Archive-Tar from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install perl-Time-HiRes from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install perl-Digest-MD5 from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install perl-DBI from your usual RHL 7.3 packages repository
install arc
install unrar
install zoo
install perl-IO-stringy
install perl-Unix-Syslog
install perl-libnet (needed by perl-MailTools and perl-Razor)
install perl-MailTools (needed by perl-MIME-tools and perl-Razor)
install perl-MIME-tools (needed by perl-Convert-TNEF)
install perl-Convert-TNEF
install perl-Compress-Zlib
install perl-Archive-Zip
install perl-Net-Server
if amavisd-new-postfix was built with SPAM checking enabled:
install perl-Mail-SpamAssassin
if amavisd-new-postfix was built with SPAM checking enabled:
install perl-Digest-SHA1 (perl-Razor and perl-Digest-HMAC need it)
if amavisd-new-postfix was built with SPAM checking enabled:
install perl-Digest-HMAC (perl-Net-DNS needs it)
if amavisd-new-postfix was built with SPAM checking enabled:
install perl-Net-DNS (perl-Razor needs it)
if amavisd-new-postfix was built with SPAM checking enabled:
install perl-Razor
install amavisd-new-postfix

Notes

arc (`arc`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of all releases of RHL that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the arc package from version 5.21e-4 because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

If you are installing amavisd-new you may want to consider using nomarch instead of arc because it's a GPLed arc decompressor and the amavisd-new package includes a patch created by Mark Martinec that adds support for it.

nomarch (`nomarch`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

file (`file`)

You only need to download this source RPM package if you use RHL 6.2 and RHL 7. RHL 7.1, RHL 7.2, RHL 7.3 and RHL 8.0 ship with packages that contain this program so you can install it from your distribution media.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of RHL 6.2 and 7: The source package is simply the one shipped with RHL 7.1 as it is the first release that recognizes Microsoft's TNEF-encoded files (an AMaViS requeriment). Also, if you were using the packages published in this page on October 2001 on these releases of RHL you will need to manually downgrade the file package from version 3.33-1 because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

lha (`lha`)

You only need to download this source RPM package if you use RHL 6.2, RHL 7, RHL 7.1 and RHL 7.2. RHL 7.3 and RHL 8.0 ship with packages that contain this program so you can install it from your distribution media.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of RHL 6.2, 7 and 7.1 that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the lha package from version 1:1.14i-4.2rm because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

If you use RHL 7 and you had installed the lha package shipped with the distribution (version 1.00-17, you will need to update it to the provided package because amavisd[-new] needs version 1.14g or better.

unarj (`unarj`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of RHL 6.2, 7 and 7.1 that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the unarj package from version 2.43-6.1rm because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

unrar (`unrar`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of all RHL releases that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the unrar package from version 2.71-1.1rm because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

zoo (`zoo`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of all RHL releases that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the zoo package from version 2.10-4.1rm because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

Archive::Tar (`perl-Archive-Tar`)

You only need to download this source RPM package if you use RHL 6.2, RHL 7, RHL 7.1 and RHL 7.2. RHL 7.3 and RHL 8.0 ship with packages that contain this CPAN module so you can install it from your distribution media.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

This package was modified so it can be used by amavisd/amavisd-new by applying an AMaViS-specific patch that forces the module not to use compression support.

Archive::Zip (`perl-Archive-Zip`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

This package depends on: Compress::Zlib.

Compress::Zlib (`perl-Compress-Zlib`)

You only need to download this source RPM package if you use RHL 6.2, RHL 7, RHL 7.1, RHL 7.2 and RHL 7.3. RHL 8.0 ships with a package that contains this CPAN module so you can install it from your distribution media.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new, Archive::Zip.

Convert::TNEF (`perl-Convert-TNEF`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

This package depends on: MIME::tools.

Convert::UUlib (`perl-Convert-UUlib`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd.

IO::stringy (`perl-IO-stringy`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new, MIME::tools.

libnet (`perl-libnet`)

You only need to download this source RPM package if you use RHL 6.2, RHL 7, RHL 7.1, RHL 7.2 and RHL 7.3. RHL 8.0 ships with a up to date package that contains this CPAN module so you can install it from your distribution media (RHL 7.2 and RHL 7.3 ship with older packages that should be updated).

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new, MailTools, Razor.

MailTools (`perl-MailTools`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new, MIME::tools.

This package depends on: libnet.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of all RHL versions that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the perl-MailTools package from version 1.15-6rm because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

MIME::Base64 (`perl-MIME-Base64`)

You only need to download this source RPM package if you use RHL 6.2, RHL 7 and RHL 7.1. RHL 7.2, RHL 7.3 and RHL 8.0 ship with packages that contain this CPAN module so you can install it from your distribution media.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new, MIME::tools, Razor, Net::DNS.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of RHL 6.2, 7 and 7.1 that had installed the packages published in this page on October 2001: You will need to manually downgrade the perl-MIME-Base64 package from version 2.12-6rm because we are now using a new release numbering scheme that allows a system to be upgraded to a newer Red Hat Linux release without package version conflicts arising.

MIME::tools (`perl-MIME-tools`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new, Convert::TNEF.

This package depends on: IO::stringy, MailTools, MIME::Base64.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

The following compile-time options are available (copied from the top of the spec file):

# Optional: Patch (by me) that keeps Filer::output_filename from
# raising taint mode fatal errors with Perl 5.00503 as shiped with
# RHL 6.2. Turned off by default as it is experimental, enable it with
# a rpm|rpmbuild invocation command line like
# rpm -bx|--rebuild perl-MIME-tools... --define 'PATCH_RHL62_NOTAINT 1'

...

# Optional: Apply the patch to MIME tools 5.411[a] created by the
# MIMEDefang authors to fix a couple of security issues and adding
# one feature. See http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/#download
# for more info. Turned off by default, enable it with a rpm|rpmbuild invocation
# command line like
#  rpm -bx|--recompile|--rebuild... --define 'PATCH_MIMEDEFANG 1'

...

# Optional: Apply the patch to MIME tools 5.411[a] created by the
# amavis-ng author Hilko Bengen to fix a couple of security issues
# See the doc/README file contained in the amavis-ng tarball for more
# info. Turned off by default, enable it with a rpm|rpmbuild invocation
# command line like
#  rpm -bx|--recompile|--rebuild... --define 'PATCH_BENGEN 1'

Unix::Syslog (`perl-Unix-Syslog`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd, amavisd-new.

Net::Server (`perl-Net-Server`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new.

Time::HiRes (`perl-Time-HiRes`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new, Mail::SpamAssassin, Razor.

Digest::MD5 (`perl-Digest-MD5`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new, Digest::HMAC, Net::DNS.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

For users of RHL 7.3 you may want to update the version of the package originally shipped with the distribution to a errata package published by Red Hat (taking it to version 2.20-1).

Mail::SpamAssassin (`SpamAssassin`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new.

This package depends on: Net::DNS, Time::HiRes.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

When the source RPM for this piece of software is rebuilt, two binary packages are obtained: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin and SpamAssassin. Only perl-Mail-SpamAssassin is needed by amavisd-new as it uses the low-level hooks provided by the Perl module. SpamAssassin is provided for completeness and you may install it if you intend to use the high level tools/daemons expected from a full SpamAssassin installation

Razor (`razor-agents`)

This source RPM package should be downloaded irrespective of the RHL release you use as no one ships a package of this piece of software.

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new.

This package depends on: libnet, Net::DNS, Digest::SHA1, Time::HiRes, MIME::Base64.

For this package, the following note(s) apply:

When the source RPM for this piece of software is rebuilt, two binary packages are obtained: perl-Razor and razor-agents. Only perl-Razor is needed by amavisd-new as it uses the low-level hooks provided by the Perl module. razor-agents is provided for completeness and you may install it if you intend to use the high level tools expected from a full Razor 1.2 installation.

Digest::SHA1 (`perl-Digest-SHA1`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be an architecture dependant RPM package (.<arch>.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new, Razor, Digest::HMAC.

Digest::HMAC (`perl-Digest-HMAC`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new.

This package depends on: Digest::SHA1, Digest::MD5.

Net::DNS (`perl-Net-DNS`)

Download the source RPM package (.src.rpm) and rebuild a binary package from it on a development system running the same RHL release as your server.

The resultant binary package will be a noarch RPM package (.noarch.rpm).

This package is needed by: amavisd-new, Mail::SpamAssassin, Razor.

This package depends on: MIME::Base64, Digest::MD5.

TO DO

Make the packages compatible with RHL 8.0.
prune SpamAssassin dep on Pod::Usage on RHL 6.2 so the tree does not get so dense.
Credits for the packages I based on!
Architectures of RHL-provided CPAN modules packages may differ from the ones I use.
Clarify the fact that amavisd[-new] can be configured to use other antivirus engines.
Update packages to newer releases where applicable.

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Last modified on Wed Feb 5 2003
Ramiro Morales <rm-rpms AT gmx DOT net>