MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm

[Derek Winkler]

As a tarball user, I would also like to see this change.

Preferrably including something in the MailScanner/etc directory.

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of James A. Pattie
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:29 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm
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> Julian Field wrote:
> | When you install the RPM of MailScanner, it shouldn't over-write
> | CustomConfig.pm if you have changed it anyway. Are you
> saying that it
> | always gets over-written even when you have changed it?
>
> Well for those of us not using rpm, Debian or tarballs, etc.,
> this would make
> upgrading MailScanner much nicer as the MailWatch or other
> addons should
> hopefully just keep working.
>
> I'm actually starting to tackle debianizing the MailWatch
> package and this would
> be a nice feature to make packaging easier.
>
> |
> | At 12:43 22/03/2004, you wrote:
> |
> |> Hi Julian,
> |>
> |> whenever I upgrade to a new version I need to add
> |>
> |> require 'MailScanner/MailWatch.pm';
> |>
> |> to CustomConfig.pm again. Is there no way around it? You could e.g.
> |> require a file 'MailScanner/CustomRequirements.pm' which
> will never be
> |> overwritten on upgrades. We all could put our
> CustomConfig.pm additions
> |> in this second file. This would allow you to change CustomConfig.pm
> |> whenever you want to and still give us the flexibility needed.
> |>
> |> Regards,
> |>   JP
>
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