Gary Funck wrote: > Hmm, first I've heard that there might be probs. building rpm's as > root. What are they?
The biggest one is that the build/install part of building the package will accidentally overwrite real system files. This is a Very Bad Thing, and can *really* screw things up if you're building on the system you're going to install on; you may end up overwriting something you really didn't want to overwrite. > Request for enhancement in existing MIMEdefang rpm spec file -- > > Currently, it states: > > Requires: perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-MIME-tools perl-IO-stringy > perl-MailTools > > a more consistent capitalization standard would be: > > Requires: perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-MIME-Tools perl-IO-Stringy > perl-MailTools This would be nice, but it would also be incorrect. <g> Those Perl modules are named as-is, for whatever reason it was, and changing the capitalization will Break Things. I don't recall any particular problems building any of those modules myself. -kgd -- Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been! _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang