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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