[Dovecot] Trying to install Test43 with rpmbuild

[Peter Lacey]

Why create your own RPM?  White Box generally supports Red Hat 
Enterprise packages.  I installed Dovecot from one of the RPMs listed 
here; http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/, and it worked on my WB 
server.  Of course, the packaged version wasn't built with LDAP, so I 
ultimately installed from source.  But if the default Dovecot build is 
good for you, then so are the RPMs found here.

Pete

On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0, which is a re-compile distro 
> of
> RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0.  I'm installing a new mail server and 
> would
> like to use dovecot as it supports Maildir, which the default imapd 
> does
> not.
>
> I've downloaded test43's tarball, and would prefer to use RPM to manage
> it.  To that end, I've tried to do an rpmbuild, but get an error:
>
> [root at www src]# rpmbuild -ta dovecot-1.0-test43.tar.gz
> error: line 7: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 1.0-test43
>
> I tried untaring the tarball and looking at the dovecot.spec file, and
> sure enough on line 7 is a reference to "Version: 1.0-test43".  The
> problem is that if I take out the '-', and try rpmbuild, I get more
> errors.
>
> I'm not an expert in this stuff...has anybody else managed to get this
> working?  It would sure make my life easier (I think).
>
> Ben
>