Hello Jeff I tried it, and I can answer my own question ...
On 9 Mar 2001, at 23:26, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="I. Forbes"> > > > I was looking at the unstable debian package for Courier, > > courier_0.31.1-2.dsc. > > > > What chances are there to get this to compile on potato, or should I > > just stick with the source distribution? > > Funny, I've been trying the same thing. :) I have emailed the maintainer > about my problem too, but as yet have not received a reply. These are the > final lines of the unsuccessful build: It builds fine, but there are a few bugs ... > debian/fixlinks > /home/jdub/src/debian/courier/courier-0.31.1/debian/tmp/usr/sbin > make: execvp: debian/fixlinks: Permission denied > make: *** [install] Error 127 I had to change the permissions on "debian/fixlinks" to make it executable. Then I had to add a line: "MAILDIR=Maildir" to /etc/init.d/courier-imap to set that environment variable so it would find my Maildir directories. I think courier-pop may need the same. The installation trashed the contents of /etc/pam.d/imap (I took a copy from the potato courier-imapd package) and I had to fiddle with /etc/courier/imapd to get it to authenticate. I have not setup the pop3d, but I would expect similar problems. I had to add a few symbolic links to get sqwebmail to work, but I have still not managed to get it to authenticate. (My source code compilation did authenticate, so there can't be too much missing). I think these may be general bugs in an unstable package, as opposed to potato specific. I have a number of site where I would like to deploy this package, and if it can be by means of an upgradeable *.deb, it will be worth the effort. Cheers Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 +21 683-1388 Fax: +27 +21 64-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------