[users] While we're on the subject of alpine ...

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 9/14/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >
> > > I really wanted the "alpined" and related TCL programs that implement
> > > the web mail interface.  Are you by any chance planning to package
> > > those separately?
> >
> > I hadn't thought about that. I guess that's possible, can you advise me on
> > how you would do it ?
>
> I don't actually *need* them to be packaged *separately*, but the
> webmail stuff is not in the package as currently available (or at
> least, as was available two weeks ago).  Packaging it along with the
> alpine MUA would be fine if multiple packages is too hairy.
>
> As to how I would split it ... it would probably require three
> packages, one for the c-client libraries, one for the MUA and related
> command-line utilities, and one for webmail.  I'm too rusty with
> writing spec files to provide much more detail than that.
>
> The c-client library package would have to obsolete or somehow live
> alongside RHEL5's libc-client-2002e-14 (and corresponding -devel).
> Obsoleting might be problematic for squirrelmail and the php_imap
> packages.
>
> > (what do other packagers/distros do ?
>
> I don't know of any other distro that has alpine.  (That doesn't mean
> there isn't one, I just don't know about it.)
>
>


http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=18087

The webcode is still turned off until a 1.0 release. The idea was to
put it into 1 package until the code was steadied and then work on a
seperate web package since it requires tcl and some other stuff. This
may become the upstream package as the packager works at Uwashington..
but it might not.


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