Dave wrote:
> What exactly are the "licensing issues" that prevent
> qmail from simply being folded in to the CentOS or
> Ubuntu disrabutions?
Steve has this right in his reply, TTBOMK.
> I'm a little uneasy running a sevrer that requires a
> kludge to keep automatically up to date.
I'm the same way, Dave. I tend to be more comfortable running binary rpms
myself. However that is simply not an option with any derivative of qmail,
including the toaster.
The scripts provided with the toaster (and qmailtoaster-plus) packages
(which *are* rpms), do an adequate job of overcoming this difficulty. The
advantages of using rpms are not lost with the toaster. All packages are
installed using rpm binaries, it's just that they're built on your specific
machine.
If you really wanted to use yum to do the upgrades, you could (but there's
really no point in doing so). Simply build your own yum repository
containing the toaster binary rpms that are produced by the scripts (or
built yourself manually), and you're good to go. You just can't *distribute*
your binary rpms to anyone else.
> Also, the QM Toaster kit seems to force the use of PHP
> and MySQL. (... Both items that are hard to secure
> and I would rather keep off this low-volume server.)
I cannot speak authoritatively on this.
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> --- Erik Espinoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Might want to check out the wiki. There are a ton of
>> scripts that you
>> can use to keep the QT up to date.
>>
>> ES and JV have done some great work on keeping the
>> QmailToaster up to
>> date. Due to licensing restrictions, we aren't
>> allowed to give out
>> binary updates, so no yum.
>>
>> The wiki has an faq entry on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik
>
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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