* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] qmail.eclass draft
@ 2007-07-30 11:20 99% ` Benedikt Boehm
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From: Benedikt Boehm @ 2007-07-30 11:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Michael Hanselmann; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:08:36 +0200
Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello Benedikt
>
> Sorry for my long response times.
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:58:17PM +0200, Benedikt Boehm wrote:
> > i thought about this, but i'd really like to see things like
> > qmail-spp and the gentoo qmail tarball be handled by the eclass, on
> > the other hand i agree that unpacking netqmail or qmail based on
> > $FOO is not the best idea. any suggestions?
>
> I really don't see the point of having qmail_spp_src_unpack and all of
> these qmail-spp related variables. There have to be different diffs
> anyway for other sources, making it more complicated with that many
> variables. Aren't you overengineering here?
Well, i think the unpack stuff could be handled in the ebuild, but i'd
still like to keep dospp, so ebuilds like vpopmail can install
spp-plugins in a standardized way..
> Now some things I noticed while going through, in no special order:
> - Why need_qmail? It slows down cache regeneration and is really
> unneeded.
yeah. will fix this soon.
> - In qmail_man_install you rename some manpages. Can you please add a
> comment on why you do this?
done.
> - You're very inconsistent with variable quoting. Please quote them
> everywhere except the places where you're absolutly sure there will
> be no spaces (or other special characters) in them. Maybe the original
> netqmail has some of these issues, too, but now we can fix them.
done (at least in the eclass)
> - Don't align stuff like on the last two lines in qmail_src_install.
done
> - The "use gencertdaily" thing in qmail_ssl_generate works, but
> doesn't look so nice. How about this?
> use gencertdaily && \
> CRON_FOLDER=cron.daily || \
> CRON_FOLDER=cron.hourly
done
> - Limit line length to 80 characters (with tabs at 8 spaces).
will look at this later
> - I don't like the custom tarball. How do you want to build and
> redistribute it without depending on a single person? Its sources
> need to reside completly on Gentoo infrastructure.
yes, i'd suggest to put it in svn, just like we do with the apache
tarball, and create a script for tar/upload etc.. probably most could
be copied from the apache script..
Bene
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