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* [gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config
@ 2005-04-25 11:38 Tom Martin
  2005-04-25 12:22 ` Andreas Vinsander
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Martin @ 2005-04-25 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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Hi,

Fernando <ferdy(at)gentoo.org> and me have been working on a system for
mailwrapper that doesn't involve mangled config file with too many
comments and etc-update hell. We're just about to get the thing into
Portage and start the transition, so this is a final mail to let people
know what's going on.

It's going to work like this:

New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp,
exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new
system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called
package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between
profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al.

We also have a companion eclass, mailer.eclass, to go along with the
changes.

This should make things a lot easier for people but if anyone has any
concerns, we'd like to hear them.

Thanks,
Tom and Fernando

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Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti

AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim
Gentoo Linux

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config
  2005-04-25 11:38 [gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config Tom Martin
@ 2005-04-25 12:22 ` Andreas Vinsander
  2005-04-25 13:26   ` Aaron Walker
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Vinsander @ 2005-04-25 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Tom Martin wrote:
> 
> It's going to work like this:
> 
> New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp,
> exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new
> system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called
> package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between
> profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al.

This is starting to look a lot like /etc/alternatives a la debian, what
was the reason for not using that solution from the start (for all
packages that might have alternatives)?
Wouldn't that be a more generic solution? (Have to admit I haven't
looked at debian /etc/alternatives more than over a co-workers shoulder,
but it seemed appealing)

/Andreas
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config
  2005-04-25 12:22 ` Andreas Vinsander
@ 2005-04-25 13:26   ` Aaron Walker
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Aaron Walker @ 2005-04-25 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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Andreas Vinsander wrote:
> Tom Martin wrote:
> 
>>It's going to work like this:
>>
>>New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp,
>>exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new
>>system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called
>>package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between
>>profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al.
> 
> 
> This is starting to look a lot like /etc/alternatives a la debian, what
> was the reason for not using that solution from the start (for all
> packages that might have alternatives)?
> Wouldn't that be a more generic solution? (Have to admit I haven't
> looked at debian /etc/alternatives more than over a co-workers shoulder,
> but it seemed appealing)

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/eclectic/

Already in the works.  slarti knows of this, but wanted to get it implemented
now rather than waiting for eclectic to be added to portage.  Btw, ciaranm,
what's the ETA on that?

- --
Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
[ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ]
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