Thanks for the info, Thomas. See comments below.

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The good news is that because this new macro is both important and
wide-spread we decided to include this feature into openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1
[3] for forward compatiblity. If this macro is the only incompatiblity
then today's CURRENT packages will work with the 1.3.1 update of
OpenPKG. Chances are that pine is one of them. Have fun!
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Great! I have changed the openpkg dependency in my new version of the pine
rpm to be 1.3.1 and everything works fine. Thanks.

> >2) MTA
> >
> >I assume that this is referring to a Mail Transport Agent. [...]

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Exactly. In many situations it costs more to tweak a package to not
use an MTA than to convince the user to install an MTA just to fulfill
the requirement. That's why we provide the ssmtp package. It is a tiny
little submit-only software package. I have to admit that it has few
requirements but too many for bootstrapping, as Bill pointed out when
describing his issue with "sudo" in another posting within this thread.
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I see your point, But as I explain in another message, here at the
University, we need to have mail clients such as pine default to pointing to
the standard OS sendmail (/usr/sbin/sendmail on RedHat and /usr/lib/sendmail
on Solaris). So in my new rpm, I have a new option, which if enabled, allows
pine to point to the system standard sendmail and removes the MTA
dependency.

Dennis


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