Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh in near, medium, and far-term

[Tethys]

Ken Hornstein writes:

>You say that rpm says that the version is 1.3-3; is that some snapshot
>version?  Or actually based on 1.3?

It's 1.3, and it's the third build that Fedora have made from that release.
It's usually rebuilt if an extra patch is added or if there's an update to
a static library that it's linked against. In this instance, the only patch
against a stock 1.3 is to remove some setgid permissions at install time:

--- uip/Makefile.in.orig        2005-12-24 12:17:38.000000000 -0500
+++ uip/Makefile.in     2007-01-15 20:49:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
 # install commands with special installation needs (thus no $(SCMDS) use here)
 install-scmds:
        if test x$(SETGID_MAIL) != x; then \
-         $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -g $(MAIL_SPOOL_GRP) -m 2755 inc 
$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$cmd; \
+         $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) inc $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$cmd; \
        else \
          $(INSTALL_PROGRAM)                 inc $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$cmd; \
        fi

Tet