On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 05:11:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
[Debian: exim4 for woody]
>> No neeed for additional patching for sa-exim, the dlopen-patch is
>> already included. exiscan-acl will require patching, just fetch the
>> source patch it and check debian/rules on how to build
>> exim4-daemon-custom.
> Thanks. Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but... :-)
> Is there any easy way to persuade the package to build on a woody
> system? (work like keeping production servers as close to stable as
> possible). Obviously dpatch needs to be dragged in from sarge, which is
> no problem, but the Build-Depends on libgnutls5-dev tries to drag in
> half of testing when I do an `apt-get build-dep exim4', including the
> updated libc, which I was trying to avoid.
You'll need backported GnuTLS if you want to build with TLS.
support.
http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/woody/
> If I don't care about TLS support in the generated packages, would
> removing the Build-Depends: on libgnutls5-dev suffice? Likewise, if
> eximon isn't being built, would doing the same for {xlibs,libxaw7}-dev
> stop it trying to drag in half of X?
You can simply ignore these unneeded build-dependencies, you don't
even need to edit debian/control.
> I know there are woody backports available, but they appear to be
> binary-only, which isn't a lot of use for patching with exiscan-acl. :)
I do not provide source-packages for the backports for a simple
reason - they are compiled from unmodified sources from
debian/unstable.
cu andreas
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