Re: distributing source

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:39:17AM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Frank Louwers wrote:
> 
> > - I am slowly migrating most of these boxes from sendmail to
> >   qmail+messagewall+vmailmgr.
> > 
> > - So I have 'tuned' the setup a bit to preconfigure qmail for
> >   messagewall and everything.
> 
> Configuration of qmail is a different issue. Is there any reason that you 
> cannot distribute a standard binary qmail package, and distribute a 
> separate package which configures qmail "for messagewall and everything"? 

What is a "standard binary qmail package"? Even the stock debian package
can't be distributed.

Which one do you suggest I use?

> IIUC, "configuring qmail for messagewall" is really a matter of 
> configuring tcpserver so that qmail-smtpd is listening on localhost only.
> That's not a patch to qmail, not a qmail built time option.

My "modified" stuff doesn't need to modify the source (except for "the
filesystem synchronous mount" thingie), it modifies the install scripts,
put decent default values in configscripts etc. However, it's a binary
package ...

If you are saying that if I don't modify the source (the
.c,.h,Makefiles/whatever), but modify the install scripts, the default
config files etc, I can still "distribute" my package to the servers I
admin, then you've made me a very man.

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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