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On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 07:02, Benjamin Coles wrote: |
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> Much apologies on the ebuilds, I must admit that these are my favorite |
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> packages to maintain (qmail-ldap). It is quite hard to get some stuff |
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> done with the ebuilds even when it consists of minor changes. I noticed |
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> that you were in need of help on the ebuilds. I am available online as |
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> sj7trunks and you may message me since I am very interested in helping |
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> people get Gentoo into the mainstream. I recently lost my job so I've |
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> added this to my list of to do and I'm also working on an LDAP book for |
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> Prentice Hall so I'm fairly confident I'll be able to help you out. |
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Thanks, Ben and congratulations on your book deal! |
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I actually succeeded in migrating our central server (router, firewall, |
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mail, www, squid, etc) to Gentoo in early Jan and was able to beat |
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qmail-ldap into shape (using the in-portage ebuilds and the patches I |
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supplied via Bugzilla). |
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I was fortunate enough to be given a reasonable degree of freedom in OS |
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choice, which, I believe, is the only reason we were able to make the |
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switch to Gentoo. I strongly suspect that, had management known the |
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difficulties related to the qmail-ldap ebuilds, they would have forced |
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my hand (probably to another Linux distro, eg. Debian or Fedora). |
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As stated previously, I've sinced moved from sysadmin to webmaster. Even |
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though I'm no longer responsible for our central server (save website |
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related ebuilds eg apache and php), I dearly love Gentoo (running it on |
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my desktop and home server) and want to see it move forward as a |
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distribution, esp in the corporate sector (I await 2004.1 and security |
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only updates with glee!) |
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I'd very much like to see qmail-ldap reach the same level of stability |
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(ebuild-wise) as mainstream qmail, and am keen to assist where-ever |
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possible. |
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Unless you're already working on it, I'll have a play with the various |
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reported bugs and their associated patches, in addition to the latest |
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qmail and qmail-ldap ebuilds - seeing if I can add the conf-* |
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functionality suggested by robbat2 |
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Cheers |
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Andrew |
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