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Re: Fixing IMAP mail directory and building RPM.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Wed Nov 18 17:17:41 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:09:13 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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> ===== Original Message from Colin Cyr <redhat-list@redhat.com> at 11/15/98
> 8:37 pm
> >I know we'd discussed this once, but I lost the e-mail and the archives have
> >proved useless.
> >
> >I need to change the IMAP mail directory from '/' to something like '/.imap'.

Set it in your mail client.  No patches to imap are necessary.

> >
> >This would appear to be the NAMESPACE defines in env_unix.c
> >
> >What do I need to alter?
> >
> >The second is, I installed this source from a SRPM.
> >
> >I untar'd the gzip to alter the source, from here, what do I need to do to
> >make an SRPM and Binart RPM with my small change?
> >
> >Thank you in advance for the help.

Untar the original sources so that you have the originals and your
sources side by side.  Use diff to make a patch.
Move the patch to the SOURCES directory.
Add a "Patch<x>: mypatch" line and a "%patch<x> -p1" line in the spec
file
rpm -ba spec file

MSG


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