[ALUG] Compiling backages for Debian-based distros

[Mark Rogers]

Brett Parker wrote:
> I'd be interested to know what bugs it fixes - dspam 3.6.8 appears to be
> doing a *fantastic* job on my mail...
>   

I'm probably looking in the wrong direction, but whilst dspam does 
indeed do a fantastic job on our email too, it dies perhaps once per day 
leaving a queue to build up. (Hence the recent thread about using cron 
to restart mail server.) My server has to handle about 4000 emails/hr, 
and dspam probably isn't the bottleneck, but it's the bit that's dying, 
without logging anything to debug it.

There was an additional reason in that I found a patch for 3.8.0 which 
would enable me to set a threshold for spam to be deleted rather than 
quarantined (in our experience, if I deleted everything over 90% I'd 
lose a lot of the quarantine and would never yet have lost a valid 
email). Unfortunately I can't now find that patch anyway. It would 
probably have been easy to apply to 3.6.8 - as you say there's not a lot 
changed - and now that I'm investigating this more I'm finding reports 
of problems that 3.8 introduced, so the exercise is about 50% academic 
now (I just want to know how to do it!)


> Doesn't look like there's a lot of difference between the two, and it
> should be fairly simple to do a backport as follows:
> 	apt-get source dspam
>
> Swipe the debian directory from there and put it in to a untarred 3.8.0
> directory.
>
> dch -v "3.8.0-0local"
>
> Add changelog line.
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot
>   

Thanks, that's just the info I was after! I'll give it a whirl!

> rejoice.
>   

Fingers crossed :-)

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