Re: [PATCH 4/4] msmtp: add link to ${libdir}/sendmail

[Kang Kai <Kai.Kang@windriver.com>]

On 2012年11月22日 04:57, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 15:37 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Richard Purdie
>>> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>  wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:28 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Kang Kai<kai.kang@windriver.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> LSB tests check file ${libdir}/sendmail, and the file was created by
>>>>>> package lsbsetup. Because lsbsetup is dropped, create the link in msmtp.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kang Kai<kai.kang@windriver.com>
>>>>> I think it is wrong. You should to use alternatives for it.
>>>> Not necessarily, its not a file conflict problem, it just needs to exist
>>>> at all...
>>> What if I want to use another smtp and still be lsb compliance?
>> The issue is we already have the "sendmail" bindir entry under update
>> alternatives control so this means adding an alternative of the
>> alternative which I think is getting convoluted. Ideally this symlink
>> just needs to exist which ever smtp is installed.
>>
>> So I think the better answer may be to move the link to the lsbtest
>> suite, or some kind of lsb-collateral package.

I will move the links to package lsb.

Thanks,
Kai


> This is a nicer solution indeed as this allow for reuse of same
> solution among other packages.
>