On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > Is there a reason why there are no RPMs for Qmail? I was reading on the
> > site and it looks like they prefer pure source distribution, and no binary
> > distribution, but I didn't see it forbidden. Is there no way that Qmail
> > can be distributed in binary RPM format, ie. in contribs or something?
> > Just curious... I'm going to be playing with it here and was hoping for
> > something a little easier or "Mandrake optimized".
>
> It can be distributed in binary form, the particulars are very strict
> though.
>
> CFLAGS=`rpm --showrc|grep ^optflags|cut -d: -f2`
You can't use $RPM_OPT_FLAGS for this instead? And yeah, I saw on the
page that it does a lot of install stuff at build time (ie. users and so
on), but that sort of thing could be done in a %pre or %post I'm sure...
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