[Mimedefang] MIMEdefang on CPAN? or in RPM form?

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Mon Dec 27 11:18:57 EST 2004


Personally, I'm also starting to agree that some elitism is necessary and
making installation too easy is a bad thing.  Having a few hurdles to make
people install MD sorts out the weaker system admins from the herd so we
don't have to listen to "what's perl"?

Regards,
KAM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEdefang on CPAN? or in RPM form?


> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
> > Note that you should not generally package RPM's as root. There's a
> > little setup required before issuing the above command as a
> > mortal. Perhaps we could set up a FAQ entry about what's needed?
>
> I just do:
>
> chown -R dfs /usr/src/redhat
>
> Substitute your login for "dfs".
>
> This may not be possible for policy reasons on a shared system.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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