This doesn't seem right. With Fedora 13:
$ yum info mailcap Installed Packages Name : mailcap Arch : noarch Version : 2.1.33 Release : 1.fc13 Size : 54 k Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : Helper application and MIME type associations for file types URL : http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/mailcap.git License : Public Domain and MIT Description : The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads : the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or : multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular : type of file with a particular program that a mail agent or other : program can call in order to handle the file. Mailcap should be : installed to allow certain programs to be able to handle non-text : files. : : Also included in this package is the mime.types file which : contains a list of MIME types and their filename "extension" : associations, used by several applications e.g. to determine MIME : types for filenames.
$ yum --enablerepo=* list metamail Error: No matching Packages to list
$ yum --enablerepo=* provides */metamail No Matches found
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?
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 It is *old* and no longer maintained by anyone.
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 It is *old* and no longer maintained by anyone.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.
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 It is *old* and no longer maintained by anyone.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.
Actually, it would need maintaining. If you were to download the last available tar file for metamail and try to compile you will find it won't. I seem to recall doing this over a year ago (it had some neat utils to convert between Base64 and quoted-printable) and it required some header files and/or libraries that had moved on to the point where you'd have to modify metamail to bring it "into the future".
Oh, and FWIW, don't use fedora-list@redhat.com. That list has been depreciated and messages sent to that list will be auto-forwarded to the fedoraproject list and end up in double messages.
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....
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....
Have you tried to rebuild based on that src rpm, which is for some distribution called PLD?
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.
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