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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 9f7e73d3..d765a616 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ fetchmail.spec: Makefile.in specgen.sh DISTDOCS= BUGS FAQ FEATURES NOTES OLDNEWS fetchmail-man.html \ fetchmail-FAQ.html design-notes.html esrs-design-notes.html todo.html \ fetchmail-features.html README.SSL README.NTLM \ + README.packaging \ fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt \ fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt diff --git a/README.packaging b/README.packaging new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6e799a15 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.packaging @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +README.packaging +================ + +fetchmail 6.3.0 changes relevant for packagers +---------------------------------------------- + +Greetings, dear packager! + +There are now some changes to the fetchmail 6.3.0 installation layout, +which are given as headwords below. + +- fetchmail now uses automake and supports all common automake targets + and overrides such as "make install-strip" or "DESTDIR=..." for staging + areas + +- the fetchmailconf script has been renamed to fetchmailconf.py, + automake will install it into Python's top-level site-packages directory + and byte-compile it (so you need to package or remove + fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo as well) + +- 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. + +- 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. + +- 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 + course keep your symlinks in place and ignore this dummy. IF you + install the dummy and compress your man pages, be sure to test "man + fetchmailconf", on some systems, you'll need to adjust the ".so" + command to point to the compressed version. |