[gentoo-dev] qmail-1.03-r9.ebuild?

[gentoo-dev] qmail-1.03-r9.ebuild?

[Mark Farver]

The qmail-1.03-r9 ebuild has been masked since September, it adds
support for SMTP-TLS and qmail ldap. Currently it appears to be masked
due to a problem compiling when USE = ssl ldap is set (the exact
features I want to use....) 

Email sent to raker@gentoo.org (listed in package.mask, and as the
responsible developer for all of net-mail) have gone unanswered. (
Since there are unimplemented hooks in the ebuild to solve this issue I
suspect he already knows the solution, and there might be unforseen
other issues...)

I have a patch against the current CVS tree that gets it to the compile
and work stage, at least for me.

What is the best way to submit this to someone that cares?  

My ideas:

1. Create a bugzilla entry reporting the compile failure, and linking to
the patch.

2. Saying to heck with doing something useful, since as long as overlay
is available it works for me, and rsync won't trash it.

3. Connive nearby friend who is blessed with CVS access to apply patch.

4. Send constant "are we there yet" messages to developer until he/she
cracks under strain and trades "holiday cheer" for automatic weapons
fire.  

5. Post non-sensical email message to gentoo-dev list.

Not necessarily in that order.. ;-)

Mark Farver




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Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail-1.03-r9.ebuild?

[Nick Hadaway]

I don't have any record of you sending me information.  Please forward me
any fixes or patches that you have which may alleviate current issues with
qmail -r9.  I have had limited responses from people.  Some reporting
things working well and other appearing not to be able to get things
configured correctly.

There is a bug currently which I have looked for responses on -r9.  Here
is a link for you...
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2808

Please if anyone has any suggestions or problems that they find, please
let me know what your experiences are... log information is helpful as
well.  Yes, the unmasking of an updated ebuild is long overdue.

-nick
 raker@gentoo.org
 Feel free to email me. :)  I promise I will respond.  Communication is
ALWAYS a good thing.




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