I acknowledge Redhat do a good job with FHS and do interface with the community.
>> Is there guidance in the standard mailman distributions >> on how to build for FC starting with a tar.gz ? > > > According to their particular filesystem structure? No. That is > something that RedHat would need to produce -- and support. > This was my point - I think if you are going to take a package off on a branch for some specific use that would be a good thing to do. I don't want to knock Redhat at all - the policy is still worlds better than well-known vendors and it does all work well. I'm just lamenting my own decision to run with FC3 because one effect is a partial isolation (or extra work) and I'm pretty well locked in now. If john's point that standard build's work without problem on FC (albeit without keeping to the FHS) then it won't in general be an issue except that that fact is not easily apparent. Having grown up with slackware over a few years I personally find RH has a slight flavour of OS'es pedalled by those well-known vendors (*only* slight). Yes, I suffer from that point that John made that users tend to get upset when things are not where they expect them to be. Even more so when its hard work finding them. A plea to Redhat - if you are going to purloin mailman and do it with FHS then a file that accompanies the mailman distribution that explains how to do a manual build that conforms to the way RH does it would be very useful - a "how to manually build for FC£ (which ends up with files in the same places as FC has them). Since you need to be following the development and dealing with that issue anyway I can't see that it is any extra work to write up the method and keep that up to date and contributed to the mm distribution. As its not extra cost the only reason I can see that RH would NOT do that is to lock persons in to RH. andy ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
