[BlueOnyx:02844] Re: metamail package

[JW Simpson]

Michael,

Thanks for the quick reply.
I was under the impression that BlueOnyx is a RedHat derivative?
Can I download the .src.rpm from a RedHat repository and use 'rpm -i' ?

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 08:48 +0100, Michael Stauber wrote:

> Hi JW,
> 
> > I'm wanting to use metamail on a BlueOnyx system, and it does not seem
> > to be in any of the repositories.
> > Does anybody know if there is a reason why it's not in the standard
> > repositories?
> 
> There are so many tools, programs and utilities dealing with mail in one form 
> or other, that you'll hardly find the more exotic or obscure ones in a 
> mainstream distribution.
> 
> > Is anybody else using it?
> 
> On BlueOnyx? I doubt it. For BlueOnyx we don't need metamail and apparently 
> CentOS doesn't have it in their repository either. Funnily enough we do have 
> mailcap, which is used by metamail according to the RPM info:
> 
> [root@# yum info mailcap.noarch
> [...]
> Installed Packages
> Name       : mailcap
> Arch       : noarch
> Version    : 2.1.23
> Release    : 1.fc6
> Size       : 18 k
> Repo       : installed
> Summary    : Associates helper applications with particular file types.
> License    : public domain
> Description: 
> 		The mailcap file is used by the metamail program.  Metamail 
> 		reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display 
> 		non-text or multimedia material.  
> 
> 		Basically, mailcap associates a particular type of filewith a 
> 		particular program that a mail agent or other program can call
> 		in order to handle the file.
> 
> 		Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to
> 		handle non-text files.
> 
> > There is a warning on the system about using non-certified repositories:
> >
> >         cat /etc/yum.repos.d/0_WARNING.txt
> 
> Yeah, too many people messed up their BlueQuartz or BlueOnyx boxes by tying 
> them into RPMforge and then doing a "yum update". Hence we put that warning 
> there.
> 
> 

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JW Simpson <john at swajime.com>
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