I have been trying to package up vpopmail into a .deb and have made a lot of progress using the original vpopmail package available from SID(version 4.9.9)
I have been having a lot of troubles with it though, the Makefile is made such that it only installs the vpopmail files inside of the vopmail users ~/ dir. I have posted a message to the vpopmail list and got no replies from anybody about it. The trouble is I don't want to write my own makefile (part of debian/rules) in the source package because every time something changes in the up-stream source, the rules file must change. I don't know much about the automake,autoconf,etc... so coming up with a useful patch for the upstream version of makefile.am and configure.[am/in] files is proving to be a lot of hair pulling for me. If anybody has made more progress on this, I can find something else to occupy my already busy time... Thanks for any info, Loren At 11:13 AM 6/25/2002 +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > > > I'm in the process of building debian/woody packages containing the most > > recent versions of vpopmail and vpopmail-enabled courier. Unfortunately > > it may take a few extra weeks since I'm involved in many other projects. > > I'll keep you informed just in case ;-) > > > > Best regards, > > > >I thought Sanjay (please excuse me if I got your name wrong, as the last >time I communicated with you was a year ago and I am working from memory) >created the original vpopmail debs? > >So insteaed of recreating the wheel, why not start from there instead? I >know that perhaps the latest vpopmail stuff is incompatible with the >previous, but at least it may help to have a base to start from. > >On another note... do you plan on making it easy for those of us using the >previous "older" vpopmails? We use the vpopmail packages, and it would be >terrible if we had to manually upgrade each box. Perhaps some sort of >"upgrade" script or program, or SOME way to upgrade as painlessly as >possible? I am sure those of us using the existing vpopmail implementation >would be greatful (at least I would!). > >Thanks. > >Jason > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
