Bug 64400 – Add biabam (Biabam Is A Bash Attachment Mailer) to portage

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2004-09-17 07:03:37 UTC]

Hi!

Please add my, soon to be attached, ebuild for biabam, which stands for Biabam Is A Bash Attachment Mailer, which is a small bash-script for sending emails with attached files from the commandline.
The homepage for this tool is: http://mmj.dk/biabam/

I think it should go in the mail-client category.
It should probably also depend on the system having a MTA providing /usr/sbin/sendmail installed, but I don't know how to specify that in the ebuild. Isn't all MTA's in gentoo creating a softlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail?

The ebuild does indeed depend on bash (it uses bash specific things) but version 3.0 is not required, but was what I had installed on my test-system.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2004-09-17 07:04:02 UTC]

Created attachment 39757 [details]
biabam-0.9.6.ebuild

[Comment 2 tklauser 2004-09-17 07:09:54 UTC]

You probably should add RDEPEND="virtual/mta" to the ebuild (as it needs a binary in /usr/sbin/sendmail)

[Comment 3 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2004-09-17 07:41:17 UTC]

I know I could do that, but I just wanted a gentoo developer to tell if all MTA's provide /usr/sbin/sendmail, and thus adding virtual/mta is the correct approach.

[Comment 4 Jens Svalgaard Kohrt 2004-12-02 08:08:34 UTC]

Created attachment 45153 [details]
Ebuild of new version of biabam

I've created an updated version of the ebuild for biabam. 
All relevant packages should be in RDEPEND.

[Comment 5 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 06:05:02 UTC]

Yes, virtual/mta is a correct approach, although not every MTA in portage supports mailwrapper yet, especially those smaller relay-only MTAs. We're working on it. :)

[Comment 6 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-02-10 05:15:37 UTC]

Just commited to CVS. Thanks

Cheers,
Ferdy