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fetchmail-FAQ.html design-notes.html esrs-design-notes.html todo.html \
fetchmail-features.html README.SSL README.NTLM \
+ README.packaging \
fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt \
fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
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+README.packaging
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+
+fetchmail 6.3.0 changes relevant for packagers
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+
+Greetings, dear packager!
+
+There are now some changes to the fetchmail 6.3.0 installation layout,
+which are given as headwords below.
+
+- fetchmail now uses automake and supports all common automake targets
+ and overrides such as "make install-strip" or "DESTDIR=..." for staging
+ areas
+
+- the fetchmailconf script has been renamed to fetchmailconf.py,
+ automake will install it into Python's top-level site-packages directory
+ and byte-compile it (so you need to package or remove
+ fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo as well)
+
+- the Makefile generates a two-line "fetchmailconf" /bin/sh wrapper
+ script that executes the actual fetchmailconf.py with the python
+ installation found at configuration time.
+
+- note that fetchmailconf.py supports a few command line arguments, so
+ it you use local wrapper scripts, be sure they pass on their own
+ arguments properly.
+
+- there is now a dummy fetchmailconf manual page which will just source
+ (roff's ".so" command) the fetchmail manual page for now. You can of
+ course keep your symlinks in place and ignore this dummy. IF you
+ install the dummy and compress your man pages, be sure to test "man
+ fetchmailconf", on some systems, you'll need to adjust the ".so"
+ command to point to the compressed version.