[ITA] Procmail 3.22

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Aug 16 08:14:00 GMT 2014


On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> [...]
> > > I forgot the prep stage.
> > >
> > > I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice
> > > program btw):
> > >
> > > http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/
> > >
> > > I had to cheat a little (see 'src_compile' in .cygport file) because
> > > the source has to be compiled with a library, called 'suexec'. In
> > > there are the function overrides to make 'multi-root' and suid/guid
> > > possible.
> > >
> > > To make the Procmail and Sendmail packages completely 'clean' I would
> > > like to ITP this library as a new package.
> > 
> > Definitely.  If a library is a prerequisite for the package, you should
> > ITP it before we upload any dependent package.  If the build is ok, it's
> > more or less preapproved if it's GTG.
> > 
> > I'm just a bit puzzled.  Isn't suexec an application, and isn't it part
> > of apache, usually?  Also, since when is procmail dependent on suexec?
> > It isn't on Fedora and they certainly use almost all of procmail's
> > features...
> 
> You are right, suexec is an Apache program. I created this library myself and
> borrowed the name from Apache. It solves the impersonation problem by making
> procmail 'multi-root' aware. I wrote a small article on it in my ITP of libsuexec.

procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without
this tool.  Why does this solution not work for Cygwin?

> > Oh, and while I was looking I found this:  The original procmail 3.22
> > sources are not IPv6-enabled.  Would you mind to add the Fedora patch(*)
> > for that, too?
> 
> I will.

Thanks!


Corinna

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