On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:30:07AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote: > (keep the patch separate from the tarball, don't distribute patched > binaries), you're fine. This is the reason you won't see a binary distribution of qmail in Debian. Debian is fairly active in patching source code for a number of reasons: bug fixes, inflexible Makefiles, disabling "features", and changing default settings. So, although very sensible reasons for patching source code, it is still not acceptable under DJB's license to do so. Instead, Debian distributes a source package for qmail and requires you to learn a little about compiling packages to create a binary yourself. % apt-get source qmail-src build-essential devscripts fakeroot % sudo apt-get build-dep qmail-src % cd QMAILDIR % dpkg-buildpackage -us -us -rfakeroot % sudo dpkg --install ../QMAIL-PACKAGE_FILE.deb > If the patch does something he doesn't like, he won't support your > installation.. that's his right, though. That's fine, but he doesn't have to force people through the loops above. It's ludicrous. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list