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README.packaging
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fetchmail 6.4 changes relevant for packagers
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Greetings, dear packager!
The bullet points below mention a few useful hints for package(r)s:
- Fetchmail requires OpenSSL v1.1.1. Fetchmail 6.4 tolerates 1.0.2 for now
but assumes the distributor backports security fixes for it.
- 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 is named 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).
- 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 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 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.
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