On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> > > Is there a reason why there are no RPMs for Qmail? I was reading on the
> > > site and it looks like they prefer pure source distribution, and no binary
> > > distribution, but I didn't see it forbidden. Is there no way that Qmail
> > > can be distributed in binary RPM format, ie. in contribs or something?
> > > Just curious... I'm going to be playing with it here and was hoping for
> > > something a little easier or "Mandrake optimized".
> >
> > It can be distributed in binary form, the particulars are very strict
> > though.
> >
> > CFLAGS=`rpm --showrc|grep ^optflags|cut -d: -f2`
>
> You can't use $RPM_OPT_FLAGS for this instead? And yeah, I saw on the
> page that it does a lot of install stuff at build time (ie. users and so
> on), but that sort of thing could be done in a %pre or %post I'm sure...
Well yeah if your building a .spec and rpm set. but if you just want the
mdk cflags there they are quick and handy like...
