upgrading SpamAssassin?

[Kevin MacNeil]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:51:26PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:15:36PM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote:

> > I could just uninstall the .deb and get the modules off CPAN. But
> > before I do that, is there a repository somewhere that has a more
> > up to date version for Ubuntu?
> 
> The apt-cache policy results for spamassassin:
> 
> spamassassin: Installed: 3.1.0a-2 Candidate: 3.1.0a-2 Version table:
> *** 3.1.0a-2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe
> Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.0.4-2 0 500
> http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
> 
> Which is to say, Dapper has the most up-to-date version. You might
> consider installing Dapper's version. I've been running Dapper for a
> few days now, for every single package on my machine, and I've had
> almost no problems at all.
> 
> You could always use pinning (see apt-config(8)) to upgrade just
> spamassassin and the packages that it depends on, while leaving the
> rest of your machine at Breezy.

Thank you for that. I'm new to ubuntu and apt, but the wiki at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PinningHowto laid it all out.

I ended up just setting breezy as the default in apt.conf and then
running "sudo apt-get -t dapper install spamassasin".

SpamAssassin 3.10 is now installed. I trained it with my 20,000+
message spamfile and it's been perfect so far. However when I ran
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade it said 

The following packages have been kept back:
  fetchmailconf
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

I'm not sure what fetchmailconf has to do with spamassassin, but I'll
look it up.

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