On 10/28/2010 10:23 PM, JD wrote:
On 10/28/2010 09:48 PM, Dave Close wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
Certainly, mailcap is used by programs other than metamail. But the description seems to imply that metamail is the primary user. So, where= is metamail?
metamail hasn't been packaged in a long time....at least before F11. It is *old* and no longer maintained by anyone.
Well, then, "anyone" ought to update the info for mailcap -- at least. But metamail doesn't need maintenance so long as it still works, and I have no reason to think it doesn't work.
Well, if you want to, you can build it yourself from source rpm: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/26/dist/12/size/608480/name/metamail-2....
Well, it turns out that the PLD source rpm has a macro that breaks the build.
I downloaded http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/suse/src/meta... and it has a very minor build stopper whichyou can quickly fix in the spec file, namely
BuildRequires: ncurses-devel xorg-x11 xorg-x11-devel
Well, Fedora does not install xorg-x11 in a single package, but rather multiple packages. So, I just edited the spec file and commented out the line because I know that I do have al x11 and x11-devel packages, as well as ncurses-devel package. So,
# BuildRequires: ncurses-devel xorg-x11 xorg-x11-devel
and you can run the build:
rpmbuild -v -bb metamail.spec
and the build succeeds.