On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:46:13PM +0200, Thomas Lotterer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003, Matthias Kurz wrote: > > > > [...] > > > And is there a way to use the MTA that is installed on the system ? > > > Same for DNS, JRE, JDK, ... > > > > No, OpenPKG does not support the reuse of system components. [...] > > Nevertheless one can easily workaround this if one insists on doing it: > > just create a dummy OpenPKG package which "Provides: MTA" [...] > > > For the particular case of "MTA" you might consider using the "ssmtp" > package. It is simple as it is a submit-only solution w/o any daemon, > w/o spoolang and it completely relies on a "smarterhost" which could be > any SMTP daemon - even the system supplied one. The major advantages of > this solution are: it does not touch the OS (as expected by OpenPKG), it > does not break OpenPKG philosophy, it is not a workaround and last but > not least - it already exits. So, have fun.
That's nice, looks like i can go with ssmtp. Requiring to replace the OS MTA to install a tool is not very nice from my philosophical point of view, though :) Same with DNS (just because the MTA argument is undermined, now), or other services that run on a well defined port or so. How does this work with multiple instances, anyway ? But then, currently there was only a problem with MTA and that seems to be solved for now. (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im pr�motorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
