From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jul 12 09:32:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23829 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23673 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/1.2) id JAA00192; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:31:37 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199607121631.JAA00192@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: port of Majordomo v1.93 To: james@nexis.net (James FitzGibbon) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:31:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, james@nexis.net, freebsd-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "James FitzGibbon" at Jul 12, 96 10:29:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings! > > Yes. I patched all of those to look for it in /usr/local/etc/majordomo.cf > > (just like many of them needed to be patched for the correct location of > > sendmail). I guess this is personal preference... I like to keep /etc > > pretty clean (if I put *everything* that was in /usr/local/etc into > > /etc -- even just a symlink -- the resulting /etc would get quite > > cluttered) > > Ys, an issue of personal pereference. eAt some point one crosses the line > between porting to FreeBSD and making a system configured the way they > think it should be. I might have already gone too far, but changing the > hardcoded locations of files for convenience (as opposed to function, like > sendmail) is going farther still (IMHO). Granted. Though I think you'll find *other* ports/packages have deliberately moved things from /etc to /usr/local/etc ... > > Heh heh heh... there's always one more! ;-) Luckily, my notes for 1.93 > > only take up 7 pages in my journal (the 1.92 notes were probably twice > > that!) > > Yeah, it's certainly not the easiest beast to install, is it ? Thankfully > 1.94a has addressed many of those concerns, but it's still not stabe > enough to port. Maybe a beta or pre-release. I didn't really find it that painful. 1.92 was tougher since I was using Perl5.001 at the time and had to make the tweaks for that. I also had to tweak a few of the scripts to automatically adjust file permissions so I could have digests, archives, etc. appear under ~ftp nicely. As with most things, if you read the directions (carefully), you are rewarded! :> Almanac, on the other hand, is quite a different beast! :-( --don