Re: getmail and Fedora 32

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 02:17:46AM +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> I was only trying to do two things:

It's all right to mention it on the mailing list.  The problem is the
way that the fork is handled, that it registers getmail6.org and seems
to push itself aggressively on distributions.

Try to register python6.org for your fork and see what happens.  Hint:
the PSF will stop it with the trademark.

It isn't the first time in the Python community that someone attaches
his name to another person's work and runs with it.


> The latter is likely to be useful info for anybody else who is upgrading
> from Fedora 31 to Fedora 32 and following the usual Fedora 6 month
> version upgrade cycle.

Well, here is more useful information for Fedora 32:

sudo yum install python27
wget http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/getmail-5.14.tar.gz
tar xvf getmail-5.14.tar.gz
cd getmail-5.14
sudo python2 setup.py install
getmail --version


Stefan Krah