[Sheflug] Debian packages -- how to determine build options...

[Chris J <cej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Long time no post. Just a quicky hopefully. Looking at upgrading a rather
old server in the (very) near future to something more recent, both in
terms of hardware[1] and software[2] :-)

However I'm trying to determine what packages I can install straight from
pre-built packages and what may need building from source; the one I'm
currently trying to determine is qpopper which I use with qmail and have
built with both SSL and APOP support.

If someone can kindly point the way to how to find out, it'd be
appreciated. Note... I don't actually have a Debian install, and don't
particularly want to do one just as a reccy, so I need to know how to do
this in a platform agnostic way (be it linux, windows or cygwin).

Cheers all,

Chris...

[1] Dual Pentium P150, 64MB RAM, 6GB of disk. It's done really well as a
mail server and small-scale web server over the past 10 years, but it's
running out of disk space drastically, and the network card is getting flaky...
[2] Slackware 8, about seven years old


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