From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 4 8:21:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (curie.sunesi.com [196.25.112.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27B6D37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 84368 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jul 2001 14:39:33 -0000 Received: from choke.sunesi.net (HELO gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) (196.25.112.242) by curie.sunesi.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 14:39:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 96737 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Jul 2001 14:25:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:25:30 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail/vpopmail FreeBSD port cleanup Message-ID: <20010704162530.A96675@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20010704172403.B4644@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010704172403.B4644@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:24:03PM +0300 Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 2001-07-04 (17:24), Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > Attached is a patch to the mail/vpopmail port, which attempts to > accomplish several things: > > 1. Rip out the configure script lines that try to modify > the destination directory. I think this one needs no explanation :) > And no, nothing has broken so far. > > 2. Give the user the ability to override the default username/pass/db > for MySQL usage (I mean, other than editing vmysql.h by hand). > Yep, this could expose the username and password in the clear > environment during the build process; if somebody is afraid of > that, then they should simply not use it, and use the good ol' > editing-vmysql.h-by-hand method. For the rest of us, this is > way more convenient :) > > 3. Give the user the ability to override the default id of 89 > for both the vchkpw group and the vpopmail user. Currently, > the pkg-install script just aborts when pw(8) detects that > the value 89 is already in use (e.g. by the mailman port :) Go for it. (and, alternatively, we can use a different id and register it in the registration place thingie.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message