MIME::Tools

[Remco Barendse]

There is no Gentoo package!

Gentoo uses install scripts (ebuilds). The ebuild for MailScanner
(which is still beta) simply fetches the source of MailScanner and
installs the required perl packages from CPAN. Compile / installs the lot
and all is done!

This is why I suggested re-submitting Julian's version to CPAN again,
Gentoo has nothing to do with it. If it would be possible to install
Julian's version from CPAN other architectures would benefit from it too
by simply being able to install all required perl modules from CPAN
instead of downloading and installing yourself!

The Gentoo ebuild can be found here (pretty straightforward):
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=28381&action=view

The Gentoo MailScanner development page is found here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36060



On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Kevin Spicer wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 19:05, Remco Barendse wrote:
> > Is it difficult to rename Julian's version to MSMIME:Tools and re-submit
> > it tp CPAN? All I want/need is Julian's version that will do what I want
> > it to do (scan mail) and I don't care about the rest :)
>
> I _think_ the lib pragma indicates the first place to look for a module,
> therefore presumably simply installing the patched modules in the
> MailScanner lib directory should be sufficient (meaning no real changes
> to MS and only a compile time change and the patches to MIME tools.
>
> Unfortunately I suspect there may be license issues which could preclude
> packaging them together (artistic vs GPL), although perhaps a possible
> solution would be a seperate dependant package?
>
> I suspect the Gentoo devs may be unwilling to accept non official
> patches to a standard package (particularly a not-latest version),
> particularly as this is depended upon by other packages (such as
> Amavis).  Has anyone approached the maintainer(s) of the Gentoo
> package?  [The gentoo package changelogs for both Mime-Tools and Amavis
> list some of the same people, this may or may not be an obstacle].
>
> The other problem I see is with the risk that this is essentially
> forking MIME tools, which it would really be nice to avoid
>
> I've just starting to get to grips with Gentoo myself, so I also have an
> interst in getting a proper ebuild sorted out (and would be happy to
> help, although right now I have zero experience with making ebuilds).
>
>
>
>
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