*****BETA BETA BETA BETA BETA***** works for me (but haven't tested every new feature) FEATURES: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/documentation.html#features * changed DEPEND="virtual/python" (getmail-3) to DEPEND=">=dev-lang/python-2.3.3" * right now there are 2 doc dirs (ugly) but this problem will be gone after getmail is out off beta stage Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 35174 [details] getmail-4.0.0_beta1.ebuild
Created attachment 35461 [details] SLOTed & renaming ebuild I also wrote my own ebuild file for getmail-4.0.0_beta3. This one is a different approache because of the config file change, I must have the ability to run both versions in parallel. Here is the result, it renames the binaries and the ebuild is SLOTed. Not excessively tested, but works.
******* OFFICIAL RELEASE *************** My ebuild works flawlessly (at least for me). @Bernd: I don't need SLOT support. For me getmail offers everything i need. I think (i.e. i am not good in python and python paths) you should change the path "insinto /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/getmailcore" to something that will work with newer python versions too.
Sure, in the view of features or benefits, no one needs getmail v3 (or prior). But if you replace getmail version 3 wih getmail version 4 on a server that has a significant amount of users and every user has a getmail-config file and a cronjob that uses getmail to fetch his mail, you *cannot* just replace the getmail binary. The users will get errors over errors instead of their mail. For my specific purposes, the amount of users is not that much and I will get my users to switch to the new getmail config files when I upgrade. But I think it's important to keep care about servers that can not replace a frequently used binary by another one that does not work with the existing configs. The installation in python-2.3-directory is imho correct as long as the dependancy of getmail is exactly python-2.3. If one decides not to use slotting, you can just run the included setup routine, it will do the rest and make the ebuild much easier. I would not do this in the official ebuild because of the given problems when upgrading.
getmail-4.0.1 committed to CVS with SLOT. Please test and thanks for reporting. Cheers, Tuan
