MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm

[Julian Field]

At 19:29 22/03/2004, you wrote:
>As a tarball user, I would also like to see this change.
>
>Preferrably including something in the MailScanner/etc directory.

It shouldn't go in etc as it's not  a configuration file, it's executable
code. /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner would be the right place in my
opinion. If not right, then the best we've easily got.

I'll try to remember to write this tomorrow. Had enough for tonight (fixing
bugs in binhex decoder).


> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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