(I'm not subscribed to this list: please CC me) On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:12:01 +0100 (CET), Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I mean, something like: to provide a "mail-transport-agent", > > there must be a /usr/lib/sendmail, which accepts the following options. > > as far as I know, there's no such definition. > > > The reason I'm asking is because I'm now packaging a mail program > > which sends mail via /usr/lib/sendmail, and I want to be sure the > > options are portable. > > The following MTAs in unstable ship a /usr/lib/sendmail : <snip> I know how to use apt-cache showpkg, thanks. But what happens when the next MTA is packaged? Do I have to check compatability with that to? Example: package "bug" depends on mail-transport-agent. In /usr/bin/bug (part of the package is the line "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" How can bug assume there's a sendmail in /usr/sbin which accepts the -oi and -t arguments? Inside virtual-package-names.txt.gz is the following line: mail-transport-agent Mail transport agents (Smail, Sendmail, &c) OK, where does it say "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" is supposed to work when a mail-transport-agent is installed? Are you saying that there is no such place, that /usr/sbin/sendmail is merely a piece of folklore that people packaging MTAs are supposed to absorb? -- Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses! Fingerprint: 4BD1 7705 EEC0 260A 7F21 4817 C7FC A636 46D0 1BD6
