From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 16 13:15:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07654 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [193.230.201.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07528 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA04627; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:12:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:12:53 +0300 (EEST) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Steve Price cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, Matt Behrens , imap-uw@freebsd.ady.ro, FreeBSD ports Subject: Re: imap-uw security hole -- please update port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Steve Price wrote: > # You absolutely do NOT want to make the pine port depend on the imap-uw > # port; nor do you want it to automatically install the IMAP and POP > # servers that are packaged with it. Either choice would severely tick > # off those of us who use any other IMAP/POP server package. (Also, > # remember, the pine client may be built and installed on machines that > # will never run a local IMAP or POP daemon.) > > Fair enough, I was just asking because if I'm going to be in > there anyway I might as well do this too if it was a desired > feature. NOTE: however I did say that if it were to be done > that it "would have to be conditionalized appropriately...". > By this I meant that it wouldn't act any different than it does > today unless you did something like this: > > # cd /usr/ports/mail/pine4 > # WANT_IMAP_TOOLS=yes make install I understood your point, but really Steve: Pine is the client, imap-uw is the server; there is seldomly the need to install them both at a time. And it's much easier to control & use them in separate ports (though there might appear some issues with the shared libraries -- libc-client for example). > > Steve > PS: I'm striving on finishing the Pine 4.00 port... Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message