[Dovecot] Migrate 0.99 MBox into 1.0rc15-2

[Dave McGuire]

On Aug 26, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>>    Perhaps what we really need is a wiki page to allay the fears  
>> of  the
>> people who pathetically find such difficulty in "./  
>> configure;make;make
>> install".
>
> That's fine if you have only a single system and don't need to  
> track installed files through a packaging system.

   I currently maintain about thirty systems of three different  
processor architectures and four different OSs (*different OSs*, not  
"different Linux 'distros'").  It isn't a problem (or even a  
bottleneck) in that environment.  Several good centralized software  
management schemes have been around for a very, very long time.  I  
don't use *any* "package management" systems...they are more trouble  
than they're worth.  The very existence of this thread is an example. ;)

> At the very least, one should wrap that idiom in the distro's  
> packaging scheme, such as "rpmbuild --rebuild dovecot- 
> xxxx.src.rpm ; su ; rpm -Uvh dovecot-xxxx.i386.rpm".

   Hmm, that does sound like a good idea.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007