måndagen den 11 augusti 2003 21.20 skrev Tom Collins: > On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 10:36 AM, Adam Hooper wrote: > > The Makefile.am would be a lot simpler and less system-intrusive if it > > used the 'install' command instead of mkinstalldirs/cp/chown/chmod. > > > > Would it be more helpful if I wrote up a patch for this? I have hardly > > any time for the next 3 weeks, but figured this issue ought to be > > brought to people's attention as soon as possible. > > I would gladly accept such a patch. This is on the todo list for > vpopmail, and I'd love to cross it out. > > Being able to install vpopmail to /usr/local would be a great > improvement. Having it make so many changes to directory ownership and > permissions is a bad thing. > > If you do not have the time, then I'll try to take a look at the > install command and change Makefile.am to use it instead of the current > mess of code.
That shouldn't be so hard, just a matter of making it honor the passed bindir, sbindir, sysconfdir, etc. from the configure invocation(?). "--prefix=/home/vpopmail" would be the "legacy" and default option in this case. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com
