Problems Building from Source

29 Mar 2005


      I recently had to rebuild both courier-imap and postfix from source to 
include support for MySQL.  Although both are currently working, I have 
encountered several problems:

	1. I downloaded courier-imap-3.0.7-3.3.src.rpm but when I built
	   the binary RPMs, they were created as (non-root user)
	   courier-imap-3.0.7-1.suse920.i586.rpm and show up as v3.0.7-1
	   in YaST. The spec file contains the correct 3.0.7-3.3 version.
	   The postfix version remained postfix-2.1.5-3.2 though I had
	   to manually search the SuSE FTP site to find the v3.2 source.

	2. The installed binaries of courier-imap-3.0.7-1 are NOT marked
	   with an "-i-" in YaST and hence YoU attempts to update them
	   which would then overwrite the MySQL support. I tried to change 
	   or remove them from YoU but was unable to change the "Action" 
	   column.  This means I can no longer use YoU at all unless I 
	   want to reinstall all binaries created from source afterwards.

Questions/Suggestions:

	1. How can I remove binaries created from source from YoU, i.e.,
	  manually force them to "-i-" or at least override YoU insistence
	  on updating them?

	2. How can I correct the version number in courier-imap?

	3. Suggestion: When SuSE builds binaries, why not go for an 
	   "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, such as including
	   MySQL and PostgreSQL support, thus enabling them to remain
	   properly updateable via YoU? (When I rebuilt courier-imap to
	   include MySQL, it created an additional binary RPM:
	   courier-imap-mysql-3.0.7-1.suse920.i586.rpm which seems to be
	   a good approach should I decide to install an "everything but 
	   the kitchen sink" binary but do not want, for example, MySQL
	   support.)


Thank you,
Lucky Leavell