From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jun 22 20: 7: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-182.telepath.com [216.14.2.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E75D37B65E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 32788 invoked by uid 100); 23 Jun 2000 03:06:26 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14674.54322.627166.554144@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:06:26 -0500 (CDT) To: Ben Smithurst Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/19449: The qmail port has /usr/local hardwired into it, and doesn't cerate /etc/mail/mailer.conf In-Reply-To: <20000623022537.W57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000622234744.94828.qmail@guru.mired.org> <20000623022537.W57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ben Smithurst writes: > mwm@mired.org wrote: > > + @# Replace /etc/mail/mailer.conf with one that uses qmail > > + @$(ECHO) Replacing /etc/mail/mailer.conf with a qmail version. > > + @$(ECHO) The old one is /etc/mail/mailer.conf-orig > > + @-mv /etc/mail/mailer.conf /etc/mail/mailer.conf-orig > > + @$(ECHO) "sendmail $(PREFIX)/bin/sendmail" > /etc/mail/mailer.conf > > + @$(ECHO) "send-mail $(PREFIX)/bin/sendmail" >> /etc/mail/mailer.conf > > + @$(ECHO) "mailq $(PREFIX)/bin/qmail-qread" >> /etc/mail/mailer.conf > No. Please. Do this under a 'make replace' target like postfix does, > I don't think ports should be touching /etc without good reason (this > isn't one). Print a message out as part of 'make install' telling the > user what to do, again like postfix does. That sounds like an improvement to me. However, I will leave that to someone who can commit the change (unless asked, but I'm going to be unavailable for work for a couple of weeks).