----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick Warr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] The Qmail 1.03 src.rpm
> Quoting Nick Warr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Gordon Rowell writes > > > Commenting out the entire %prep section should be fine. But, I'd > > > still recommend using the updated smtpfront-qmail instead. > > > > If smtpfront doesn't cut it, I may end up doing this.. thanks for the > > information. > > Modifying smtpfront-qmail will almost certainly be easier than modifying the > qmail source code. > > However, if you are planning on building a patched qmail binary be aware of > these points: > > - the UID and GID values used at build time MUST match the UID and > GID values of the target system. These values are calculated at > build time based on the existing values already in /etc/passwd > and /etc/group. If you want to build qmail without creating the > qmail users and groups, you'll need to hand craft auto_uids.c and > possibly modify the Makefile. (Simply having the same names in > /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the target system is not enough - > the numerical values MUST also match). > > - you cannot distribute your modified binaries (assuming you modify > them to do the message recording you desire) to anyone outside your > own organisation/family etc. Doing so is a violation of Dan > Bernstein's distribution conditions. You are free to distribute your > patches in source code form. Actually I'm not patching it. It's a simple modification, listed in the FAQs on Djb's site: Set QUEUE_EXTRA to "Tlog\0" and QUEUE_EXTRALEN to 5 in extra.h then recompile qmail...... As far as I know, that doesn't qualify as patching. Is there any particular reason why the GIDs and UIDs have to be there? As I stated in an earlier mail I compiled a later version (patched, qmail1.03+patches19.src.rpm from another site) which made no such requirements of me. Which is why I was so confused when the e-smith versions started throwing errors like this at me. > > -- > Regards > Peter > ---------- > Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 613 729 7964 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
