Well, almost. I want all packages installed though debian to speed up and automate the process. Unfortunately qmail-scanner 1.15 makes this harder than necessary due to its eschewing of config files with install-time modification of the source code.
My patch is a hack, no doubt about that. I did the minimum necessary to build a debian package from the original distribution. However I think some of my changes should go into the next release, as they are in line with the author's TODO which says: "rewrite install script more like configure/make works". My changes: * Include all provided subs into the main script. It's really no issue to have them all available in the script, and it simplifies the configuration process. When you package stuff up in debian you really want it to be able to run in a variety of environments and so the less the code has to be modified before it works, the better * "configure" is still there but it combines the substitutions for the sub-*.template files (now no longer required) and the '%%' to '$' hack into the big perl-using substitution command * There's a Makefile which can do "make install" to create the needed directories and copy the script into /usr/sbin (or in the case of a debian-install, $DESTDIR/usr/sbin) * The '%%' to '$' hack seemed to be broken. I think it is fixed now * Add the debian packaging control files * "configure" without install can be done as a non-root user now. Still todo: * Add a config file to be looked-up at runtime which specifies the installed virus scanners and their paths * Messages to be loaded (and their $ variables substituted) at runtime * Spend the time to tidy it all up from a debian packaging point of view (e.g. allow interactive configuration using debconf at install time) I don't have time to do any further work on this package; I'm hoping somebody else can pick up where I left off. Please send me an email if you would like a copy of my diffs. Nick. -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
