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. > > 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. Daniel
