ports/60585: ZMailer 2.99.56 is available, can be compiled for 5.x
Seva Gluschenko
gvs at rinet.ru
Thu Apr 15 07:18:54 UTC 2004
Volker Stolz wrote:
> The patch in the PR is by no means sufficient. I already spent too
> much time tidying things up...to note a few:
>
> - an important patch got lost which installed the man-pages
> - the plist wasn't updated
> - packaging doesn't work correctly because some files in the plist
> get removed (/var/spool/postoffice) that are not generated when
> installing from the port instead of the package.
> - FreeBSD has the possibility of running post-installation-scripts,
> which is just what this port needs. It's just a matter of
> spending time to make it work correctly.
> - it installs empty directories, e.g. $PREFIX/sbin/bak.
well, by all means, I have to learn about all this stuff more.
> Even then, I'll probably wait with committing the changes until I can
> find someone who actually runs this stuff as there is no maintainer who
> can vouch for it. Would you like to become the maintainer for it?
No, I wouldn't. This project isn't mine, I only grabbed it onto my
attention once I needed it. Now I don't.
-gvs
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