Juri, > Robin Bowes wrote: > >> When I say I use Redhat 7.2 I mean that that's what I originally >> installed. I've got a lot of later versions of software installed from >> when I attempted to install apache2 from rpms so I tend to use later rpms >> from, e.g. Redhat 8.0. > > Well, then there's nothing Sam can do about it. You have a nonstandard > (read: srewed) installation and that's something you cannot really > document so that other users would benefit from. It would just describe > your special case. IMHO what you did might be ok for your personal > workstation but not for a server...
Yeah, I know. It's not something I'd do on an important box. The server in question is a production box but it's not hosting anything critical - just my personal domain + e-mail. Anyway, regarding the documentation, at a minimum what I would expect to see is something like: "The following packages are required in order to build the rpm package from the tarball: Requires: /sbin/chkconfig fileutils textutils sh-utils sed BuildPreReq: textutils openssl-devel fileutils rpm >= 4.0.2 sed perl gdbm-devel pam-devel fam-devel" Going one step further, I'd also like to see which of these packages are truly required and which are optional. For example: "The fam-devel package is optional. To build the rpm without installing this package: 1. Extract the tarball to a temporary location 2. Modify courier-imap.spec and courier-imap.spec.in removing the reference to fam-devel in the BuildPreReq line 3. Re-build the tarball" Arguably, if a package is optional it should not be included in the spec as a dependency. Does rpm allow you to mark a package as optional an issue a warning if it is not found? Sam, do you know which other packages are optional? >> Presumably, if I install/upgrade the right packages my 7.2 installation >> will become an 8.0 installation, right? Any idea how to do this? > > Boot from the 8.0 CD and choose update. [and do a full backup before > upgrading!] I may give it a go sometime when I'm feeling adventurous!! R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
