Pine whence??

[Bill Fink]

Hi Beartooth,

On Mon Mar 14 2005, Beartooth Implacable wrote:

> I can't seem to find pine for YDL4. Does it exist? Anyone got a source
> that rpm, or yum, can use? I don't much fancy my performance with
> tarballs, let alone anything more sophisticated ...

By coincidence I just encountered the same situation.  Although I don't
use pine much anymore (I primarily use sylpheed and the new 1.0.0 version
from FreshRPMs looks pretty nice), pine can come in handy on the rare
occasions I want to access my home mail from work by a remote login
to my home system.

I just finished building a pine PPC RPM, and it at least passed a
very rudimentary quick test of reading my queued e-mail from my ISP.
The procedure I used was (as root):

	1.  chdir /usr/src/yellowdog/SRPMS

	2.  wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/apt.unl.edu/apt/fedora/all/SRPMS.stable/imap-2004-0.fdr.10.c1.src.rpm

	3.  wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/apt.unl.edu/apt/fedora/all/SRPMS.stable/pine-4.62-0.lvn.1.src.rpm

	4.  chdir ..

	5.  rpmbuild --rebuild SRPMS/imap-2004-0.fdr.10.c1.src.rpm

	6.  rpm -i RPMS/ppc/imap-devel-2004-0.fdr.10.c1.ppc.rpm RPMS/ppc/imap-libs-2004-0.fdr.10.c1.ppc.rpm

	7.  ldconfig

	8.  rpmbuild --rebuild SRPMS/pine-4.62-0.lvn.1.src.rpm

	9.  rpm -i RPMS/ppc/pine-4.62-0.lvn.1.ppc.rpm

       10.  test pine as normal user

This worked for me.  You may find that you also need some other "-devel"
packages for the builds to work.  In that case I would suggest using
"yum install" or "yum update" to get the necessary packages (the imap
and pine packages are not currently yumable).

I guess I could submit the imap-* and pine packages to ydl-extras, if
I could remember how to do that and they would be accepted (there may
be a licensing issue with pine).

						-Bill