Bruno,

"ebuilds" are what the Portage software management system in Gentoo Linux uses 
to install software.  The ebuilds tell Portage what software dependencies. a 
piece of software has, what doc files need to be installed, handle initial 
software setup/configuration, etc.  They fill the role of .RPMs or .DEBs, but 
are inspired by BSD's "ports."  

The current official ebuild for qmail-ldap seems to be written by someone that 
thinks qmail-ldap is just "qmail with that extra patch on it."  The ebuild 
fails to install qmail-secretary or any of the QLDAP* docs.  It erroneously 
uses the " -lshadow" flag at compile time.  It doesn't offer the option of 
doing data compression . . . you get the idea.  I'm trying to write one that 
would give someone a working qmail-ldap experience 'out of the box,' and 
allow some install-time flexibility. 

My latest effort can be seen at:  
http://www.ed-n-cresta.net/filemgmt/singlefile.php?lid=13

I do not have the controls patch in the ebuild, but probably should.  The 
current ebuild only has the "custom error patch" worked into it.

Oh . . . and I am not using the controls patch on my home installation of 
qmail-ldap, either.

--Ed

On Monday 11 July 2005 09:08, Bruno Negrao wrote:
> Hi Ed, thanks for the patch, I'll test it.
>
> What is your "ebuild"?
>
> Also, i'm planning to use qmail-ldap + qmail-ldap-virtualdomains
> +qmail-ldap-control.
>
> Do you have them installed together?
>
> Regards,
> bnegrao
>
> > As long as the patch doesn't "FAIL" anywhere you should be good to go.
> >
> > I'm mulling over a good way to include/exclude Kristof's patch in a
> > qmail-ldap
> > ebuild I'm working on for Gentoo Linux (I would say the current ebuild
> > sucks,
> > but only if it actually worked), and have updated it for the latest
> > qmail-ldap patch.  Let me know how this works for you (attached).
> >
> > --Ed

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