qmail - build and install on Potato

[john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk>]

I'm back again!

Still trying to get qmail installed so that I can have a look at it.

On ftp.debian, I found qmail-src_1.03-14.deb ( and also the
dependency ucspi-tcp-src_0.84-1.deb). The ucspi package installs
without problems - I used 'dpkg -i ucspi etc' and then 'build-ucspi
etc' followed by 'install'

qmail seems to build OK, then goes straight into install without
prompting but fails with the error message seen at the end of the
following extract from messages in the kvt I used.

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[snipped]
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/qmail/qmail-1.03'
# check that the local user ID's match the standard ones
# This has been removed.  This is because I have been forced to
# change the qmail uid's & gid's
#@diff -u debian/debian-default_uids.c auto_uids.c || ( echo -e "\nError:\n Your system has user/group ids that differ from the debian default.\n Please rectify this.  The easiest way to do this is normally to cut&paste\n the qmail sections from /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist and /etc/group.dpkg-dist,\n into /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively (relpacing the old values).\n" ; exit 1 )
touch build
rm -rf debian/substvars debian/tmp
install -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN \
        debian/tmp/etc/init.d \
        debian/tmp/usr/doc/qmail \
        debian/tmp/usr/doc/qmail/examples \
        debian/tmp/var/qmail \
        debian/tmp/etc/qmail \
        debian/tmp/var/spool \                            
        debian/tmp/var/lib \
        debian/tmp/var/lib/qmail \
        debian/tmp/usr/bin \
        debian/tmp/usr/sbin \
        debian/tmp/usr/lib \
        debian/tmp/usr/lib/qmail
#./qmail-hier | ./install debian/tmp/var/qmail
./auto-str auto_qmail debian/tmp/var/qmail > auto_qmail.c
make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/qmail/qmail-1.03'
./compile auto_qmail.c
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/qmail/qmail-1.03'
./install
mv debian/tmp/var/qmail/queue debian/tmp/var/spool/qmail
mv: debian/tmp/var/qmail/queue: No such file or directory
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1     

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Can anyone please tell me what the error message implies and what I
can do about it.  

Regards,   

John.