On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:33:51PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>
> Understandably, John wants to put as little burden on the installer as
> possible, and saving a known good copy of the qmail binaries in a
> "safe" place is a burden. He wants the CD hold the known good
> copies. That is a safe place, and even if the sysadm loses it, can
> order a second set.
>
> I think what John wants to do (but choose the range David suggests) is
> very reasonable---but I think it will not fly with Dan.
>
Based upon what?
Paraphrased from <ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/dist.html>
1) produce exactly thge same /var/qmail heirarchy as if the user
downloaded and installed the source.
2) ensure the package behaves correctly
3) warrant that a good faith attempt at #2.
In other words, the permission is already granted to do what I want.
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John White
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