Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files

[Geert Bevin <gbevin@theleaf.be>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:33, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> Just wandering, what are those ".keep" files for?
> Looks to me like a very ugly hack.

The .keep files are necessary since otherwise when merging a new version
and unmerging the old one, required empty dirs would be removed too.
This is the way gentoo solves this problem standardly. Just look for
.keep files all over your hd.

> Anyway, ebuild for qmail should not install them in the 
> queue directory, for qmail-qstat to work properly.

Do you have real problems due to the .keep files?

> Also qmail rc file should be config-protected.
> As there's no config-protection on per file basis (am I right?)
> we should change it to:
> ---------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"
> ---------------------
> 
> with control/defaultdelivery containing;
> -------------
> |dot-forward .forward
> ./.maildir/
> -------------
> It will also fix the bug in current rc file: "dor-forward and
> ./.maildir/ should be on SEPARATE lines.

Good idea ! I'll add that

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