Thomas, Thanks for this package. It does make things easier in my case. I especially like the way you use shtool to find where the OS's copy of sendmail is located when I specify 'with_mta yes' (so I don't have to remember it).
Thanks again. Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Lotterer > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: openpkg-import (Was: Re: Pine dependencies) > > > 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
