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Re: RPM
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Michael wrote:
> Yesterday I tried to install qmail. I download qmail-1.01-9.i386.rpm and
bzzzzzt, stop here. where in hell did you get such an RPM?
Dan Bernstein, for VERY good reasons, did not make Qmail completely GPL,
for instance you are NOT allowed to distribute it in Binary form (e.g. an
RPM) unless he tested it HEAVILY and approved. whatever source you got the
above from it WAS NOT LEGAL, because I know for a fact no one has got such
a permit yet.
> execute "rpm -i qmail-1.01-9.i386.rpm". It said than it has problem with
> sendmail. Okay, I uninstalled sendmail and executed again. It was installed
> correctly (no message was displayed).
> I ran script /etc/rc.d/rc.init/qmail and checked maillog. There was
> wrote: qmail: alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue
> directory
that's an ownership problem, you should no trust such RPMs.
> I thought some was incorrect during installation and wanted uninstall
> I wrote "rpm -e qmail-1.01-9.i386.rpm" and wanted to install it
> again, but
> it wrote:
> package qmail-1.01-9.i386.rpm is not installed
that's the filename, not the package name! you need to do rpm -e qmail
> Okay, I tried install it without unistall: "rpm -i qmail-1.01-9.i386.rpm".
> Result:
> package qmail-1.01-9 is already installed
> error: qmail-1.01-9.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> What to do?
as above and DON'T install it from a binary RPM
> Then I downloaded sources qmail-1.09-9.src.rpm. Compliled and installed.
> It works very strange.
define strange, Qmail requires you to do some reading before installing. I
suggest you read the manpages on http://www.linux.org.il/qmail before
calling it "working strange" because it's the most different system from
sendmail possible, nothing is done the same.
now, since from now on it becomes a general topic and not linux-il
specific, I'd like to move it to generalQA from now (mail
generalqa-subscribe@linux.org.il to join)
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- From: Michael <michaels@sapir.makash.ac.il>