List for people interesting in developping and using Sympa packages

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

David,

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:44:49 +0100
David Verdin <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hi Soji !
> 
> Sorry for the lack of reaction on our part, but this is great news! 
> Reliable packages creation is the best thing that can happen to Sympa. 
> Most people prefer to install softwares from packages than from sources.
> 
> Would you share your .spec file? We could probably use it here. Partly 
> for the .spec.in we distribute, partly to create our own packages.

Sure.  Source RPMs including .spec file are also distributed under GPL.

I made some modifications for convenience: a small wrapper script is
called instead of newaliases command so that multiple MTAs may be
supported without recompiling; confdef.pm was modified to some
config parameters be read only; etc.

I'm glad if my work helps more people wish to use Sympa.

Thank you.

> Best regards,
> 
> David
> 
> Le 29/10/2010 07:17, IKEDA Soji a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I built Sympa RPM packages for Red Hat EL 5 / CentOS 5:
> >    http://sympa-JA.org/download/RHEL5/
> >
> > Contents:
> >    sympa          - Sympa core.
> >    sympa-httpd    - Web interfaces for Apache HTTP Server.
> >    sympa-lighttpd - Web interfaces for lighttpd.
> >
> > Most of dependencies rely on RPMForge.  Several packages not yet
> > included in RPMForge will be found at site above (I am planning
> > to support EPEL on RHEL6).
> >
> > As discussed recently, some depending packages conflict with
> > official packages (perl-File-Temp&  perl-CGI).  So they are
> > bundled into Sympa package itself.
> >
> >                                   *
> >
> > By the way I would like to introduce a Sympa information site
> > by Japanese language: http://sympa-JA.org/ provides installation
> > instructions, tips etc. on Sympa.  Mailing lists for Japanese-
> > speaking users is running: http://sympa-JA.org/sympa/info/users
> >
> >
> > # Japanese ---
> >
> > 皆様
> >
> > Red Hat EL 5 / CentOS5 向けに Sympa の RPM パッケージを作成しました。
> >    http://sympa-JA.org/download/RHEL5/
> >
> > 内容:
> >    sympa          - Sympa コア。
> >    sympa-httpd    - Apache HTTP Server 用のウェブインタフェース。
> >    sympa-lighttpd - lighttpd 用のウェブインタフェース。
> >
> > 依存パッケージのほとんどは RPMForge のものを使います。RPMForge にま
> > だないパッケージも若干ありますが、上記のサイトにあります (RHEL6 で
> > は EPEL に対応するつもりです)。
> >
> > 最近議論があったように、一部の依存パッケージは公式パッケージと干渉
> > します (perl-File-Temp、perl-CGI)。そのためこれらは、Sympa のパッ
> > ケージにバンドルしてあります。
> >
> >                                   *
> >
> > ところで、日本語による Sympa の情報サイトを紹介させてください。
> > http://sympa-JA.org/ では、Sympa のインストール手順や小技などを提供
> > します。日本語利用者のためのメーリングリストも設置しています。
> > http://sympa-JA.org/sympa/info/users
> >
> >
> >    
> 
> -- 
> David Verdin
> Comité réseau des universités
> 
> Due to the limitations of human brain, I fail to remember all the mails.
> So if you want your bug reports or feature requests for Sympa to be 
> processed, please post them to the Sympa tracker 
> <https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23>
> 


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