CentOS - Sep 2007 - searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway

I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement

"apt-get ?y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh
webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl"

"yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there some sort
of
online DB or something that I can search through to see which
repository I need to enable for some of those programs?

On Monday 24 September 2007 06:06:02 Rogelio Bastardo
wrote:
> I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement
>
> "apt-get ?y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh
> webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl"
Some packages (in fact - many) have different names between distros. Try using 
different keyword why searching and combining grep with 'yum search'
> "yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there some
sort of
> online DB or something that I can search through to see which
> repository I need to enable for some of those programs?
you might want to try http://rpm.pbone.net/

-- 
Tomasz Napierala
System Administrator
Allegro Team
http://www.allegro.pl/

Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement
> 
> "apt-get ?y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh
> webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl"
> 
> "yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there some
sort of
> online DB or something that I can search through to see which
> repository I need to enable for some of those programs?
You seem to need additional repositories for doing so.

There is no mailscanner rpm for CentOS I'm aware of, as the author seems
to be against packaging (I only picked that up during some discussion,
so don't ask me for further details).

Spamassassin is in the base repository, newer versions are in the
(trusted) rpmforge repository. logwatch is installed by default anyway.
bind is in the base repository (and we only ship bind9, so there is no
need to distinguish between versions). The two spf packages are in
rpmforge again (perl-Mail-SPF and perl-Mail-SPF-Query). sshd is
installed by default, postfix is available from base. 

webmin is installable from rpmforge, but you don't want that version,
as it is too old (no need for webmin on a mail gateway anyway, if you
ask me). 

Instead of mailscanner you could use amavisd-new, which again is
available from rpmforge. clamav is also available from rpmforge (but
split across several packages, you probably want clamd).

See <http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/> for more information about
additional repositories.

Cheers,

Ralph
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On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:01 +0200, Ralph Angenendt
wrote:
> Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> > I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement
> > 
> > "apt-get ?y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav
ssh
> > webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl"
> > 
> > "yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there
some sort of
> > online DB or something that I can search through to see which
> > repository I need to enable for some of those programs?
> 
> You seem to need additional repositories for doing so.
I'd try getting yum repo definitions for all repos you MIGHT want to use
(rpmforge, atrpms, kbs, epel, ...) in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with all but the
standard/trusted ones disabled by default.  Could then run some variant
of:

# yum --enable \* install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 \
clamav ssh webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl

Yum will tell you what it wants to install, and what repos it has
chosen.  Can also use the yum "search" or "list" options to
see what is
available with all repos enabled as above.  Could then try selectively
enabling repos to get the combination of packages you want you want.
> There is no mailscanner rpm for CentOS I'm aware of, as the author
seems
> to be against packaging (I only picked that up during some discussion,
> so don't ask me for further details).
Seems some packages are out there:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/search/mailscanner-4.31.6-1suse91.src.rpm
http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/depositos/el5/repoview/mailscanner-0-4.50.15-3.9.el5.al.html

The second link claims to be compatible with RHEL5 (no OS version was
specified by the OP) and possibly other distros - can't vouch for it.
I'd be prone to try rebuilding from the 2nd SRPM if I wanted to install
mailscanner from a package.

Phil