[Novalug] CentOS 6.8 and repositories: Need some advice
greg pryzby
greg@pryzby.org
Fri Aug 12 17:29:46 EDT 2016
Mobile so apologies for half answering but I don't want to forget.
Why not download the rpm for a trusted repo/git/maintainer and use dnf/yum
to install the package?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 4:25 PM Jay Hart via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net>
wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 6.8, fully patched, on one of my boxes. I'm going to
> say its running 'stable'
> as I don't have any 'testing' repositories enabled ***.
>
> 1st Problem: Getting hit with large number of spam emails, need to do more
> filtering
>
> Possible Solution: postscreen may solve my issue, want to install and test
> it out
>
> Postscreen was first included in postfix 2.8 code, I'm running postfix
> 2.6.6, which is hte latest
> version CentOS 6.8 [stable] supports.
>
> Issue: I'm running Postfix 2.6.6, postscreen is not part of the base
> postfix [2.6.6] code base. I
> need any updated version to be supported via the package update tools...
>
> Question/Resolution: Is there a repository I can enable to get a supported
> 2.8 postfix version
> that won't break my distro? If so, which one? I haven't found one. I've
> been searching for
> "postfix rpm 2.8 Centos 6.8"
>
>
> 2nd Problem: Logwatch is reporting Clamav is oudated. I'm running 0.99.1
> and latest version is
> 0.99.2.
>
> This doesn't seem to be a major issue but Clamav must be reporting via its
> log it needs updating.
> If I can get it updated it will be one less thing to worry about!
>
> Question/Resolution: Same as above, I can't locate a package
>
> *** These are my enabled repos:
>
> #yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> epel/metalink
> | 13 kB 00:00
> * base: mirror.netdepot.com
> * epel: mirror.symnds.com
> * extras: mirror.rackspace.com
> * updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
> base
> | 3.7 kB 00:00
> epel
> | 4.3 kB 00:00
> epel/primary_db
> | 5.0 MB 00:02
> extras
> | 3.3 kB 00:00
> updates
> | 3.4 kB 00:00
> repo id repo name status
> base CentOS-6 -Base 5,062
> epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - i386 9,942
> extras CentOS-6 - Extras 39
> updates CentOS-6 - updates 255
>
> Thanks for any pointers you can provide.
>
> Jay
>
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