Why create your own RPM? White Box generally supports Red Hat
Enterprise packages. I installed Dovecot from one of the RPMs listed
here; http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/, and it worked on my WB
server. Of course, the packaged version wasn't built with LDAP, so I
ultimately installed from source. But if the default Dovecot build is
good for you, then so are the RPMs found here.
Pete
On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0, which is a re-compile distro
> of
> RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0. I'm installing a new mail server and
> would
> like to use dovecot as it supports Maildir, which the default imapd
> does
> not.
>
> I've downloaded test43's tarball, and would prefer to use RPM to
manage
> it. To that end, I've tried to do an rpmbuild, but get an error:
>
> [root at www src]# rpmbuild -ta dovecot-1.0-test43.tar.gz
> error: line 7: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 1.0-test43
>
> I tried untaring the tarball and looking at the dovecot.spec file, and
> sure enough on line 7 is a reference to "Version: 1.0-test43".
The
> problem is that if I take out the '-', and try rpmbuild, I get more
> errors.
>
> I'm not an expert in this stuff...has anybody else managed to get this
> working? It would sure make my life easier (I think).
>
> Ben
>