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make install bites...
Ok, I've mislaid 12 hours worth of mail. Didn't realize that make
install was so thorough.
I think I've picked up all the pieces.
In my humble not-very-good-as-a-sysadmin opinion that make install needs a
couple of improvments:
1. Since zmailer installs so many programs, I'd like an option
'make install-list' that would tell me exactly what it's going to
go where. Doing a make -n install is not trivial to interpret.
2. It's not clear from INSTALL how to keep zmailer from installing
stuff into the /usr/local/bin. It gives the impression that this
stuff in installed into MAILBIN.
3. I'd like a way to install the binaries so that the tree was in place
for trials, but NOT overwrite the existing mail programs.
That is, I want router, and scheduler and sendmail and ... installed in
/usr/local/zmailer/bin, but I don't want a link from /usr/lib/sendmail to
/usr/local/zmailer/bin/sendmail
4. I'd like a way to *quickly* back out if things didn't work.
Perhaps as part of the install we could have a pair of scripts,
makelinks and unmakelinks
Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed.
Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead.
U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led.
Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said,
T6G 2J1 | "Go to father."
New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca