On 11/14/03 2:02 AM, "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003, F. Even wrote:
> 
> Sorry that our documentation still lacks those details. For your
> particular situation of importing an external MTA we recently created
> (at least in OpenPKG-CURRENT) the "openpkg-import" package. If you
> build this package with "rpm --rebuild --define 'with_mta yes' --define
> 'with_mta_path /path/to/your/sendmail' openpkg-import-*.src.rpm" you get
> an openpkg-import package which provides the "MTA" virtual package and
> later directs sudo to your external Postfix installation.

Is there anything I can do while using 1.3?  Are there any instructions for
creating a virtual RPM with 1.3?  ...or will the import package work on 1.3?

>> Also.....given all the documentation, I still really have no clue how to use
>> lsync.  Is there anywhere I can get more information using htat?  How does
>> lsync fit in the process above?
> 
> lsync is completely separate from RPM. RPM manages everything under
> <prefix> except for <prefix>/local/. For <prefix>/local/ lsync exists.
> It is intended as an alternative solution for easily integrating
> manually installed software into an OpenPKG instance without having to
> roll real RPM packages. For more details on lsync read its manual page
> lsync(8) and the section "Integrating unpackaged software" on it in our
> article http://www.openpkg.org/doc/articles/sysadmin/article.html

OK....I was misinterpreting here.  From what I was reading, I was thinking
this was a way to make already installed apps work with the OpenPKG system,
to create a "virtual" package.  I stand corrected.  So, if I customize my
"from source" install, and get it to install within the OpenPKG hierarchy, I
could then use lsync to pull it into the OpenPKG structure?

Thanks for your assistance, and all your work on OpenPKG.

Frank

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