Document PYTHON=: override, add a hint to shell argument passing.

svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=4872

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.packaging b/README.packaging
index f26aa9fb..7f1212ab 100644
--- a/README.packaging
+++ b/README.packaging
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ README.packaging
 
 fetchmail 6.3.0 changes relevant for packagers
 ----------------------------------------------
+(These should apply to all 6.3.X versions)
 
 Greetings, dear packager!
 
@@ -18,14 +19,20 @@ which are given as headwords below.
   and byte-compile it (so you need to package or remove
   fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo as well)
 
+  If you want to defeat Python byte-code compilation and would rather
+  like to install fetchmailconf.py yourself, you can add
+      PYTHON=:
+  to the ./configure command or pass this in the environment.
+  This pretends that no Python interpreter were installed.
+
 - the Makefile generates a two-line "fetchmailconf" /bin/sh wrapper
   script that executes the actual fetchmailconf.py with the python
   installation found at configuration time, so that users can still type
   "fetchmailconf" rather than "python fetchmailconf"
 
 - note that fetchmailconf.py supports a few command line arguments, so
-  it you use local wrapper scripts, be sure they pass on their own
-  arguments properly.
+  if you use local wrapper scripts, be sure they pass on their own
+  arguments properly. Remember to use "$@" (with quotes) in shells, not $*.
 
 - there is now a dummy fetchmailconf manual page which will just source
   (roff's ".so" command) the fetchmail manual page for now. You can of