From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Rovanion Luckey <rovanion.luckey@gmail.com>
Cc: 47435@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#47435] gnu: mail: Make the sendmail package actually output its binary
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:22:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YF936FoW3/WQG7u3@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAaf0CCUVMmrADMj9Ow200z=jJuzf=W1jPCgwT78gHEKUonSKA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 06:34:03PM +0100, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
> This is an attempt at getting the sendmail package working. Currently
> installing the package does not make the `sendmail` executable appear in
> `$PATH`:
>
>
> > └$ guix environment --ad-hoc sendmail
> > └$ sendmail
> > bash: sendmail: command not found
>
> This patch fixes that.
>
> Though there are questions that still need to be resolved. While this patch
> does fix what it sets out to fix, the solutions aren't neccicerily correct.
> It configures a "helpfile" to be put in "$out/usr/share" and the same goes
> for its "statistics" file. I have no idea what these does and where they
> should go in reality. If someone happens to know, please do tell.
Thanks for working on this!
> + (substitute* "cf/cf/Makefile"
> + (("^MAILDIR=.*")
> + (string-append "MAILDIR = "
> + (assoc-ref outputs "out")
> + "/etc/mail\n")))
In addition to Léo Le Bouter's comments, I suggest either omitting or
amending this part. A Maildir is where the user's emails will be kept,
but it cannot be stored in the build output, because that directory will
be immutable after the build is complete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
What is the default?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-27 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-27 17:34 [bug#47435] gnu: mail: Make the sendmail package actually output its binary Rovanion Luckey
2021-03-27 18:07 ` Léo Le Bouter via Guix-patches via
2021-03-27 18:22 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-03-28 11:57 ` Rovanion Luckey
2021-03-29 14:24 ` Rovanion Luckey
2021-03-30 2:05 ` Léo Le Bouter via Guix-patches via
2021-03-30 2:13 ` Léo Le Bouter via Guix-patches via
2021-04-09 19:30 ` Rovanion Luckey
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