On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:53:50PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Fred, > > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 15:10 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:05:05PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > All I can suggest then is tar -tvfz file.tar.gz > filelist, then feed that > > > to find and exec rm {} \; > > > > yeah, I'm working on that. but it doesn't appear to be quite that > > simple. :( > > > > The setup.py proggie appears to do a bunch futzing around with > > creating/modifying files before squirreling them away in various places. > > Which is why package managers like rpm were invented. You could try > using the spambayes package from Fedora EPEL > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL), either in binary form, or in case > you build from SRPM you can even upgrade the tarball version and build a > more recent version. Hmm... I didn't realize that EPEL offered spambayes. I'll keep that in mind for the next time I rebuild that system. per my later emails, I did resolve the problem, so it's not urgent anymore. thanks for the suggestion, though. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---------------------------- Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) -----------------------------