On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> A simple pointer: people who look for the "memphis" rpm, should not look into
> the var-qmail dir. People who look for a binary distribution of qmail,
> should look into var-qmail.
I loved that qmail SRPM, it always worked great for me.
>
> The only added bonus is that now one does not have to compile qmail.
> The old rpm does not meet the criteria for binary redistribution.
so basically it's a drop-in replacement to the old qmail SRPM that was
there, once you add qmail-run? (which makes more sense named qmail-init
maybe?)
> As for patches: binary redistribution does not allow any patches used to
> build the package.
that I understand. I meant that up to a month ago I would download the old
SRPM, do rpm --rebuild and then install the resault
>
> I did not understand your comment about applying patches at srpm build time.
> Perhaps you want to elaborate.
what I mean is that the new binary RPM you are distributing would be
accompanied by the SRPM that created it. doing --rebuild will create the
binary allowed for distribution, but doing --rebuild plus some options
(forgot the syntax, man RPM) will incorporate patches (like RBL MAPS and
Widdifield's UCE patches, quota check patch to qmail-send, or whatever)
and rebuild, creating a binary RPM, possibly named differently.
right now I am happy running the Qmail as installed from the SRPM through
rebuild. Now I want to add a single patch, I need to download the qmail
original tar, patch it manually, recompile, and copy just the one patched
binary over the one from the RPM... I might have just installed from the
TARs to begin with... (not that I don't know how to, I'm just lazy :-)
patches I'd love to have as an option:
Red Hat group-per-user allow-group-writable-homedir patch.
The Widdifield/Lambertsen/Haisley UCE patch
NSCP messenger pop progress indication
pop3 authentication for relaying
SMTP authentication
Nagy Balazs' envelope sender check (make sure it's bouncable)
Oversize DNS packets (AOL fix)
limit the number of RCPT TO:
Mark Delany's envelope sender regex check patch
> Sam does have his own rpm that uses the patch. Also, Bruce Guenter
> has an rpm that employs selected patches.
I'll go check that one out...
> It is rather trivial to add patches to var-qmail-create. Those who cannot,
> should not.
haven't checked it out yet. does that come instead of the SRPM now?
> One problem I see with my old rpm is that a few people installed it, and then
> they started reading the docs included with qmail, and thought they have to
> create initscripts and such. Having two rpms I believe makes it clearer
> what people will get (since apparently I cannot always count on them reading
> the READMEs I put up).
well that's their lookout, ain't it? I used it just fine so far... people
who install software w/0 reading the instructions or the man page are
either very bold or crazy. people who skip even the README are simply
daft. expecially when it's such a central piece of software like a mail
server.
(Just my opinion :-)
