[Dovecot] About RH patches and 1.0beta8

[Michael Paesold]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 17:06 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> > I don't to attach the patches to the list, but I can if anyone could not
> > extract them from the .src.rpm
>
> I tried to figure out a while how to unpack it, but gave up. I could
> look at the pam_set_item() patch, and if someone knows what it's really
> useful for I'd like to know that too :)

Unpacking of an .src.rpm can be done trough rpm2cpio, e.g.:

$ mkdir dovecot && cd dovecot
$ rpm2cpio ../dovecot-xyz.src.rpm | cpio -i

rpm2cpio comes with the rpm package, at least on RedHat distributions.

Best Regards
Michael Paesold