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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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