Zvi "Viz" Effron writes:
3c) authdaemond: I could not find a man page for authdaemond anywhere, and I suspect this is one binary that may not need documentation, as it doesn't seem like it's designed for users to run it.3d) courierauthconfig: It appears that the man file for authlib documents courierauthconfig. I've added a line to my spec file to install the authlib man page for courierauthconfig as well, but I think it would be better to update the Makefile to install it along with the rest of the installed man pages. (However, that could be bad manpage practice, and I just don't know it, in which case, please just let me know.)
courierauthconfig is also not something that's an "end user" needs. It's for use by configure scripts that build against courier-authlib. It probably needs to be documented somewhere, but not in a manpage.
3e) userdb-test-cram-md5: I also couldn't find a man page for userdb-test-cram-md5, but it looks to me like a tool designed to help sysadmins test their cram-md5 setup. If that's the case, I think it would be highly beneficial to create a man page for userdb-test-cram-md5 documenting its purpose and usage, especially since it does not respond to --help, -h, or print a usage message when given no arguments.
It's just a Perl script, with some brief docs in its comments.
If any of the above should not have a man page, please let me know so I can make sure to not include one in my rpm. 4) The reviewer for previous attempts to package courier-authlib for Fedora (see the above link to Fedora's bugzilla) questioned why the core courier-authlib libraries (libcourierauth*) were not installed to the library directory but instead to the courier-authlib subdirectory. I tried to make the packages install to the base library directory, but when compiled without the -rpath flag, libtool refused to install them (complaining that they must be installed to a directory ending with /usr/lib(64)/courier-authlib. When I removed the -rpath flag from the Makefile for the core courier-authlib libraries (again, libcourierauth*), I received link errors on the various authentication modules.
There's ton of stuff that already gets installed to /usr/lib(64)/<subdirectory>. Just look in there. There's nothing unusual about installing to a subdirectory, when a package has several libraries.
At that point, rather than keep muddling around, I decided it was much easier to just create an ld.so.conf.d entry for courier-authlib. However, I do still wonder, is there a reason for not putting the core libraries into the base library directory?
It is not necessary to have an ld.so.conf.d entry for courier-authlib. The package works fine without it. The libraries that go in there get manually dlopened.
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