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rabid_dog

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Registered: 2006-06-07

Posts: 23

Question to Exim mantainer and Exim users

Good day

Question to mantainer:

Now, in 'current' Exim compiled without mysql and postgresql support. And have version 4.64, while current version of Exim is 4.66

Quite often Exim is used with some database and SpamAssassin uses database for AWL and Bayes, and pop3/imap-server (Dovecot in 'testing' built with database support) uses same as Exim, plus SquirrelMail

It's not hard to rebuild Exim with abs, but maybe it will useful to have in 'current' Exim with database support?
And there are libmysqlclient and postgresql-libs alreade present in 'current'.

Question to Exim users:

Did you use rebuit Exim with database support or use dbm/passwd?

If you rebuid Exim with ABS, how you avoid replacing it with new version from repo? Change package name on something like 'exim-custom'?

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Question to Exim mantainer and Exim users

Now, in 'current' Exim compiled without mysql and postgresql support.

From the Arch Packaging Standards:

Any optional dependencies that aren't needed to run the package or have it generally function shouldn't be included

If you rebuid Exim with ABS, how you avoid replacing it with new version from repo? Change package name on something like 'exim-custom'?

I'd recommend using IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf - see man pacman for details.

rabid_dog

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Registered: 2006-06-07

Posts: 23

Re: Question to Exim mantainer and Exim users

Tomk wrote:

> ..Any optional dependencies that aren't needed to run the package or have it generally function shouldn't be included..

Full text is:
> Any optional dependencies that aren't needed to run the package or have it generally function shouldn't be included, but a warning message inside the .install file should echo something like: "To enable SMB support, download the Samba package."

Maybe I misunderstood term "optional dependencies" due to my lack of english )

> I'd recommend using IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf - see man pacman for details.

Thanks for advice!

P.S.
It seems that with all this PKGBUILDs i will soon need to maintain my tiny repo
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solstice

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Registered: 2006-10-27

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Re: Question to Exim mantainer and Exim users

> how do you avoid replacing it with new version from repo?

use
pkgname=exim-custom
provides=('exim')
in your PKGBUILD