Dovecot comes with inotify support, but this is not enabled by ebuild by default. this patch adds support for the inotify use-flag and enables inotify support during configuration. ------------ --- /usr/portage/net-mail/dovecot/dovecot-1.1.16.ebuild 2009-06-09 09:01:35.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-1.1.16-r99.ebuild 2009-06-30 13:41:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ LICENSE="LGPL-2.1" KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" -IUSE="berkdb debug doc ipv6 kerberos ldap managesieve mbox mysql pop3d pam postgres sieve sqlite3 ssl suid vpopmail" +IUSE="berkdb debug doc inotify ipv6 kerberos ldap managesieve mbox mysql pop3d pam postgres sieve sqlite3 ssl suid vpopmail" # Developer documentation, controlled by the doc USE flag DEVDOCS="auth-protocol index multiaccess securecoding" @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ --with-poll=best \ $(use_with berkdb db) \ $(use_enable debug) \ + $(use_with inotify notify=inotify) \ $(use_enable ipv6) \ $(use_with kerberos gssapi) \ $(use_with ldap) \ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
(In reply to comment #0) > Dovecot comes with inotify support, but this is not enabled by ebuild by > default. this patch adds support for the inotify use-flag and enables inotify > support during configuration. > > ------------ > > --- /usr/portage/net-mail/dovecot/dovecot-1.1.16.ebuild 2009-06-09 > 09:01:35.000000000 +0200 > +++ dovecot-1.1.16-r99.ebuild 2009-06-30 13:41:52.000000000 +0200 > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ > LICENSE="LGPL-2.1" > KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" > > -IUSE="berkdb debug doc ipv6 kerberos ldap managesieve mbox mysql pop3d pam > postgres sieve sqlite3 ssl suid vpopmail" > +IUSE="berkdb debug doc inotify ipv6 kerberos ldap managesieve mbox mysql pop3d > pam postgres sieve sqlite3 ssl suid vpopmail" > > # Developer documentation, controlled by the doc USE flag > DEVDOCS="auth-protocol index multiaccess securecoding" > @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ > --with-poll=best \ > $(use_with berkdb db) \ > $(use_enable debug) \ > + $(use_with inotify notify=inotify) \ > $(use_enable ipv6) \ > $(use_with kerberos gssapi) \ > $(use_with ldap) \ > > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > this patch is obsolete. configure defaults to 'best' notify, which is inotify. also, setting flag 'inotify' is not very friendly to portability. ---configure --help [...] --with-notify=NOTIFY Specify the file system notification method to use (inotify, kqueue, dnotify, none; default is detected in the above order) [...] ---- ---output on configuring [...] checking whether we can use inotify... yes [...] File change notification method ..... : inotify [...] --- probably your kernel is outdated or misses inotify support or is missing inotify.h somehow? saturn distfiles $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config|grep -i inotify CONFIG_INOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y saturn distfiles $ find /usr/src/linux -name 'inotify.h' /usr/src/linux/include/linux/inotify.h /usr/src/linux/include/config/inotify.h HTH, Oliver @devs, please close.
(In reply to comment #1) > this patch is obsolete. configure defaults to 'best' notify, which is inotify. > also, setting flag 'inotify' is not very friendly to portability. ACK > > @devs, please close. > As you wish :P Closing per comment #1. Works here and should work perfecly for everyone.
