At 9:58 -0400 5/2/2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
If someone with more time and knowledge about rpms, debs, pkgs (does Solaris still use these?), and whatever the *BSDs and MacOSX's use <wink> wants to contribute pre-built binary packages, I will make their availability more visible on the download pages.
Mac OS X has available to it a package system called (unfortunately) fink. I've elected not to use it, since it does a whole bunch of things in not the regular Mac OS X way. My memory says....er...oh, yes, my memory says it uses the Debian packaging system.
Apple uses its own installer system which seems to be quite error prone (one Mac OS X update wiped some users' drive(s) due to an unquoted file path...it only hurt users with spaces in their volume names...especially *leading* volume names). And they seem to have blundered again a day or two ago with an application upgrade.
Of course, if one leaves the errors out of the installer packages...
I would build Mailman from source on Mac OS X (after building Exim, since I have no intention of letting port 25 traffic into a machine running sendmail: we abandoned sendmail before I learned more about its configuration than fear).
--John
-- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA