Bug 73600

Summary:	mailx update needed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aron Griffis (RETIRED) <agriffis>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-06 16:19:12 UTC

Debian currently has 8.1.2-0.20040524 in unstable: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/mailx

Gentoo's mailx is 8.1.2.20021129, which doesn't support the -a option (and probably lots of other missing fixes)

I'm not sure at this point whether it's better to get the upstream OpenBSD sources and patch them for Gentoo, or get the Debian sources and patch them for Gentoo.  I haven't looked at the Debian patch carefully enough yet to determine if it contains things that are interesting to us.

Comment 1 Martin Scherer 2005-01-17 08:44:59 UTC

this version isn't working under an hardened (grsecurity) system which disallow elf text relocations! I was asking myself why there exists a virtual/mailx category although there are no alternatives to the debian mailx client.

Actually i'am trying to update the existing 2002 ebuild to work with the 2004 cvs branch!

Comment 2 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-17 08:49:12 UTC

There is net-mail/nail, which also provides virtual/mailx...

Comment 3 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-26 10:23:02 UTC

mailx bumped in CVS.

Cheers,
Ferdy