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vpopmail packaging



I have been trying to package up vpopmail into a .deb and have made a lot of progress using the original vpopmail package available from SID(version 4.9.9)

I have been having a lot of troubles with it though, the Makefile is made such that it only installs the vpopmail files inside of the vopmail users ~/ dir. I have posted a message to the vpopmail list and got no replies from anybody about it. The trouble is I don't want to write my own makefile (part of debian/rules) in the source package because every time something changes in the up-stream source, the rules file must change. I don't know much about the automake,autoconf,etc... so coming up with a useful patch for the upstream version of makefile.am and configure.[am/in] files is proving to be a lot of hair pulling for me.

If anybody has made more progress on this, I can find something else to occupy my already busy time...

Thanks for any info,
Loren



At 11:13 AM 6/25/2002 +1000, Jason Lim wrote:

>
> I'm in the process of building debian/woody packages containing the most
> recent versions of vpopmail and vpopmail-enabled courier. Unfortunately
> it may take a few extra weeks since I'm involved in many other projects.
> I'll keep you informed just in case ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>

I thought Sanjay (please excuse me if I got your name wrong, as the last
time I communicated with you was a year ago and I am working from memory)
created the original vpopmail debs?

So insteaed of recreating the wheel, why not start from there instead? I
know that perhaps the latest vpopmail stuff is incompatible with the
previous, but at least it may help to have a base to start from.

On another note... do you plan on making it easy for those of us using the
previous "older" vpopmails? We use the vpopmail packages, and it would be
terrible if we had to manually upgrade each box. Perhaps some sort of
"upgrade" script or program, or SOME way to upgrade as painlessly as
possible? I am sure those of us using the existing vpopmail implementation
would be greatful (at least I would!).

Thanks.

Jason


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