The QmailToaster will not be merged into some other repo. I will be creating a repo for the QmailToaster only.
This is because automatic updates for things in rpmforge are okay, but require a little special care on the QmailToaster. For example if you update spamassassin while the server is live, spamassassin will no longer be able to find the supplemental files needed and crash. A newer clamdscan trying to access an older clamd may crash. Because of this there will be a qmailtoaster repo and an update script, to be run via cron or manually, that does the following: 1) Shut down qmail 2) Run yum --enablerepo=qmailtoaster update, as our repo file will always be enabled=0 3) Qmail cdb 4) Start Qmail Also, all config files are going to be broken out into a separate rpm just for config files called config-toaster. This will never be updated, to ensure that your configs persist after every update. Hope this helps clarify things a bit. Thanks, Erik On Nov 30, 2007 9:52 AM, Joseph Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It's actually much easier than that. RPMForge is set up to handle "2nd > party" RPMs. http://rpmforge.net/user/faq/ > > > > > > From the CentOS wiki ( http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge ): > > > > RPMForge is a collaboration of Dag, Dries, and other packagers. They provide > over 2600 packages for CentOS, including mplayer, xmms-mp3, and other > popular media tools. It is not part of RedHat or CentOS but is designed to > work with these major distributions. > > > > > > I haven't personally experienced the process of submitting RPMs for > inclusion to the RPMForge, but I imagine it's quite reasonable. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > -- > > Joseph Lundgren > > Systems Engineer > > Peak Internet, LLC > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > From: Warren Melnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail is officially public domain > > > > > > Getting into CentOS would mean either having it in the extras repo (fine > with me) or convincing RedHat to include it in RHEL, which would first mean > getting it into Fedora and making sure it is stable. > > W > > > On Nov 30, 2007 11:42 AM, A M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 2007/11/30, Johannes Weberhofer, Weberhofer GmbH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html > > http://www.ornl.gov/lists/mailing-lists/qmail/2007/11/msg00069.html > > > > I think, that's good news for the further development of qmail! Shouldn't > it now be possible to publish binary distributions of the toaster packages!? > > Johannes > > > > -- > > > |--------------------------------- > | weberhofer GmbH | Johannes Weberhofer > | information technologies > | Austria, 1080 Wien, Blindengasse 52/3 > |----------------------------------------------------------->> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > This is indeed good news for us. Even though I believe DJB should have done > this a few years ago... > Now all we (all qmail users/admins) have to do is to convince distributors > to supply a qmail package in their distros... that would be nice... a qmt > package in fedora/suse/mandriva/centos would be a nice treat... Am I > dreaming? > > But first all the patches and necessary changes to it must be stable and > hussle free... > > I think we'll have to way and see... but anyway, it's great news... :) > > -- > AM > agmsoft(at)gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
