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> Given the distribution policy for qmail, it seems that srpms and rpms are out.

I don't think so -- I think they just need permission from djb. (Sort
of like kermit... which debian now has a package for...) If qmail
*doesn't* get distributed prepackaged by default on a lot of systems,
it's not going to make much of a difference, so I'd guess that he
*does* play to permit this; also, there already *is* a qmail rpm (for
an older release) which I presume they got permission for, since I
haven't heard djb slamming them for it...

>> Given the distribution policy for qmail, it seems that srpms and rpms are out.

>What you want to do is distribute a qmail.nosrc.rpm. You can build your RPM

Thanks!
I was thinking of eariler rpms with /etc/rc.d scripts etc. I think that it
would be very hard to popularize qmail in e.g. Red Hat without a .rpm binary
distribution, or possibly a source rpm that has install scripts to set it up.
It's easy to build from source, but boy does one get spoiled rapidly by rpm's
(especially uninstalling ...)

The qmail distribution policy requires permission for distribution in any
format except unaltered qmail-x.xx.tar.gz. This means that e.g. Red Hat could
build a distribution, but not 'user X'. Maybe that's a good idea(?) Is there
going to be a qmail-1.00-n.i386.rpm?

-Sincerely, Fred

(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)