Re: [Exim] .spec suggestion for RedHat

Kezdőlap
Üzenet törlése
Válasz az üzenetre
Szerző: Dave C.
Dátum:  
Címzett: Nigel Metheringham
CC: Leonid Mamtchenkov, exim-users
Tárgy: Re: [Exim] .spec suggestion for RedHat

On 21 May 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 14:15, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote:
> > RedHat Linux originally comes with sendmail installed. All programs
> > that depend on MTA (as far as I know) require "smtpdaemon", which exim
> > rpms do not provide. Since rpms packages are mostly for RedHat systems,
> > I think that would be a Good Thing (TM) to add "Provides: smtpdaemon" to
> > the .spec file.
>
> Would be a great idea, except that the exim rpm already provides
> smtpdaemon. [You are probably looking at the subpackages which do not
> provide that, however an exim installation requires the exim package and
> one of the alternative daemon packages - ie base, perl, mysql etc]


Note to Nigel: It is possible that the poster was using an RPM provided
by someone else.


Note to Leonid: Saying "The exim RPM's" is invalid, becuase anyone can
package an RPM.

You might say "The exim RPM's from [ person | site | company | ... ]"

>
> On other points raised (by others) about the rpms, I have not looked at
> the alternatives schemes as yet, and not got to considering the
> capabilities required by the exim user.
>
>     Nigel.

>
> --
> [ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
> [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

>
>
> --
>
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
>
>



--