Subject: Re: exim pkg
To: pancake <pancake@phreaker.net>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/19/2003 15:38:41
What are your problem with the exim package?

The problems I see are:

- it hardcodes
 CONFIGURE_FILE=@PREFIX@/etc/exim/configure

Probably should use CONF_FILES and PKG_SYSCONFDIR.

 EXIM_USER=mail

This probably should allow some user setting in Makefile. (I mean, the
new package exim-user should allow pkgsrc user to customize to choose a
different user; for example, user "exim" is common.)

 CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown

Maybe should use ${CHOWN}

 CHGRP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/chgrp

${CHGRP}

 PERL_COMMAND=@PREFIX@/bin/perl

I don't know, but maybe use ${PERL5}

- and uses:
 ${PREFIX}/etc/exim/mailer.conf.exim

Probably should be in an examples directory, like
${PREFIX}/share/examples/${PKGBASE}

 ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/exim

Probably should use RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR


   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/