On Fri, Oct 03, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003, Dennis McRitchie wrote: > > > [...] > > 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. > > [...] > > See my reply on the Pine message: the best solution IMHO is to write > your own MTA package containing a symlink to your OS sendmail instead of > hacking out the MTA dependency in each OpenPKG package. > Triggered by this tread, Bill's and Dennis' input today we created a openpkg-import package which does exactly that: makes selected Operating System functionality available inside a OpenPKG instance. See http://cvs.openpkg.org/rlog?f=openpkg-src/openpkg-import/openpkg-import.spec
$ /cw/bin/rpm --rebuild openpkg-import-* --define 'with_mta yes' $ /cw/bin/rpm --rebuild openpkg-import-* --define 'with_mta /my/favorite/sendmail' We prefer generic approaches, so this solution is not limited to MTA. If you find another operating system functionality we should have importable through that mechanism, please tell us. As a sidenode i want to mention that the name of this package was chosen carefully. We see a possibility to create a openpkg-export package some day which does the reverse: makes selected OpenPKG functionality available outside a OpenPKG instance. As far as i remember, Bill told me he created a OS (SuSE RPM) package which links to OpenPKG's sendmail executable. But that's another story. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cable & Wireless ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
