[Alpine-info] How to re-port Alpine from 25 to 587

[Josh Rickmar]

On Mon, March 23, 2009 12:34 pm, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Doug Barton wrote:

>

>

>> Mike Miller wrote:

>>

>>

>> It wasn't clear to me from what you wrote that it was working at all,

>> but I'm glad to hear that it is.

>

> I see.  This was my way of saying that it worked with the passfile

> argument:

>

>

> It requires, as far as I can tell, that I start it every time with the

> passfile argument:

>

> alpinenw -passfile ~/.pine.pwd

>

> By "requires" I meant that it would then work.

>

>

>

>>>>> My Ubuntu package version of Alpine 2.00 seems not to work that

>>>>> way at all.

>>>>

>>>> I have no knowledge of how alpine is packaged on any Linux systems,

>>>>  sorry.

>>>

>>> I just thought I'd tell people that there is strangely inconsistent

>>> behavior betweent the different installations of Alpine 2.00.  Maybe

>>> the package managers edit the source code.  I didn't mean to ask you

>>> a question.

>>

>> I'm not offended by questions, don't worry. :) And yes, I would imagine

>>  that they do make changes in the Ubuntu package, at minimum to the

>> configure options if not patches to the source itself. I know I do in

>> the FreeBSD package.

>

>

> If you have made changes in the FreeBSD package, maybe that is why the

> behavior of your Alpine package is different from that of the Ubuntu

> package.  I like what you say the FreeBSD package of Alpine is doing --

> looking for ~/.pine.pwd, say, instead of ignoring it unless specifically

> asked to look, which is what the Ubuntu package does.  I wonder what

> Alpine does if compiled from source with the PASSFILE option, and without

>  other alterations of the code.

>

> Mike


Here's the part of the Makefile for the FreeBSD Alpine port which
configures it for a passfile:

.if defined(WITH_PASSFILE)
ALPINE_PASSFILE?=       alpine.pwd
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-passfile=.alpine.pwd
.end

So, if you configure Alpine with --with-passfile=yourpassfile.pwd it
should work.  I'm not sure how Debian package management works, but
somehow you could either create a .deb with this version or just download
and install Alpine manually from the source with this option.

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