} > I agree. There are many different Linux installations out there, and they are
} > all different. Even system files like utmp have been found in at least three
} > different places, so there's little hope that everybody will have picked the
} > same place for their software.
}
} Quite so.
However any distributed package should conform to the FSSTND
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~quinlan/fsstnd/1.2/fsstnd-toc.html
} > There seems little point in making this sort of change to the OS makefile in
} > Exim. If Ian or anybody else wants to distribute Exim as, say, a Debian
} > package, then presumably they can include the necessary patches to make sure
} > that the paths match the setup they've chosen for their system. Otherwise
} > you might just as well leave it alone and accept that it won't be what
} > everybody wants.
}
} This is the standard way Debian packages are distributed. I have created
} a Debian package of exim which needs a bit more work, but all this sort
} of stuff is put in Local/Makefile, not the OS-dependent makefile.
Thats basically what I do with Red Hat.
However I install into /usr/sbin, config in /etc/exim, spool in
/var/spool/exim
} To fit in with Debian, I assigned things as follows:
}
} binaries are in /usr/lib/exim/bin, with sendmail, mailq and rsmtp
} symlinks in /usr/sbin, and a sendmail symlink in /usr/lib.
I was under the impression that package directories of this type were
strongly discouraged - in particular by Debian. Presumably Ian can
comment here??
[I did look in the FSSTND and it does not say that in a findable
fashion at present]
} Spool and
} logs are under /var/spool/exim, and the configuration file is in
} /etc/exim.conf.
}
} However, I considered all these changes to be essentially Local things,
} not Linux things.
}
} If anyone is interested in helping out with the debianised version of
} exim, please get in touch.
Didn't Ian Jackson have one produced?
Nigel.
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