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From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:13:25
Message-Id: 20011213081336.A2530@nomad.thehutt.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files by Geert Bevin
1 On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:11PM +0100, Geert Bevin wrote:
2 : On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 13:18, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
3 :
4 : The problem is that when I remove them now for the qmail-qstat to
5 : function properly, an unmerge of a previously installed package might
6 : remove important queue dirs which are need for qmail to function. When
7 : having to chose between the two I tend to prefer having a properly
8 : running qmail system in all cases than an incorrectly reported number by
9 : qstat.
10
11 You know, qmail is the only MTA in the portage tree that does not
12 rebuild it's queue structure automagically. Maybe we should look at
13 making an ebuild for one of the "qmail-queue-fixer programs" and just
14 have qmail-sumo (great name BTW) install that as well. Heck, we could
15 even have it called from the init script -- so that it's seamless to the
16 end user.
17
18 For the record, I would prefer having the correct number of messages
19 reported by qstat. Last thing we want to be is known as the distro that
20 couldn't get qmail right. 8)
21
22 --Jerry
23
24 Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
25 ...It's much more important than that!