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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:06:26 -0500 (CDT)
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
Message-ID:  <14674.54322.627166.554144@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000623022537.W57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
References:  <20000622234744.94828.qmail@guru.mired.org> <20000623022537.W57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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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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