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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        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
Message-ID:  <200006230310.UAA17689@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/19449; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:06:26 -0500 (CDT)

 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).
 
 	<mike
 


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