[Dovecot] Trying to install Test43 with rpmbuild

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

I checked, but dag only has the 99 series, and I wanted the 1.0 test.  I 
understand that it fixes a bunch of problems that 99 had.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Peter Lacey wrote:

> 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
> >
>