Re: [Fetchmail-users] How to build a fetchmail 7 rpm on CentOS 7

[ckeader <ck...@di...>]

 
> However, linking something against static libraries is bad practice and
> you cannot update fetchmail and OpenSSL independently, and is
> unnecessary. Just install your local openssl 3 into some other
> directory, tie your fetchmail RPM to it by some file path, and make
> fetchmail use that with the ways shown here on the list before.

That's correct - however, this is the only method I can use to wrap
everything into a single rpm. Ideally I like to see every single file on
the OS partitions as part of the package.

> Also, there is no such thing as fetchmail-7.0.0-alpha10 currently (no
> tag, no release).

It gets created when you run make dist in a configured git clone :)