Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-28 Thread Vincent Schonau
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:17:29AM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote: [ minor correction ] > All installations must work the same way as an installation from source, > without modifications on a supported platform. So adding an rc script in > /etc/rc.d is not a problem, but installing a modified qmai

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau
[ Please make your MUA understand Mail-Followup-To ] On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:12:14PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote: > You may distribute a precompiled package if [ ... ] > installing your package produces exactly the same files, in exactly > the same locations, that a user would obtain >

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread John Newbigin
You may distribute a precompiled package if installing your package produces exactly the same files, in exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by installing one of my packages listed above; My RPM produces exactly the same file and directory structure with the exception th

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
John Newbigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am probably going to start a flame war with this but I have created a > patch for qmail 1.03 which removes the need for compiled in user and > group id's. > > The patch works by replacing the auto_uida variables with #defines which > call functions to

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:33:43PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote: > My second question is about the licence for qmail. Despite all my > looking I can't find it. Can someone point me to the licence or > summarise what I can do with a binary RPM. http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html> Vince.

RE: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-26 Thread Charles Warwick
Title: RE: Portable RPM for qmail 1.  That HAS been done before, Bruce Guenter has created a similar patch 2.  Q-Mail's license does NOT allow distribution of binary packages including Q-Mail. P.S.  Please forgive the signature and HTML that this e-mail has in it, unfortunately due t