[WBEL-users] Postfix

Edward Rudd eddie at omegaware.com
Thu May 19 08:50:09 CDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 05:24, Karl-Koenig Koenigsson wrote:
> [snip]

>  What is
> the proper yum incantation to tell yum that I already have a MTA
> installed and to get it to please get on with the installation and not
> require me to get sendmail as well.

you have to build and install an RPM.  I have a postfix 2.1.5 RPM for
WBEL3 on my website. (it may need to be rebuild as it has dependencies
on MySQL 4.0 and OpenLDAP 2.2.13)  

http://rpms.outoforder.cc/apt/wbel/3/i386/SRPMS.osl/postfix-2.1.5-3.osl.src.rpm

I haven't yet upgraded it to 2.1.6. I will be doing that in the next few
days. (as this is the RPMS run on my servers I have not yet tested
postfix 2.2.x, as such I have no RPMS for 2.2.x)


> [snip]

> - Why, oh why do RedHat keep insisting on enclosing the 2.0 version of
> Postfix? Most distros seems to do this and I find it utterly annoying.
> Quite a lot of water has passed under the bridges in the last years
> and Postfix has evolved even further. There are things in later
> versions that I require (support for greylist handling) and 2.0 just
> does not make it.

Fedora core and EL4 had newer releases.  the reason they included 2.0 in
EL3, was at the time EL3 was release it was "stable". 2.1 had just come
out, and RedHat's Enterprise linux distro is focused on stability and
security.  And as you can see from the collection of "osl" rpms on my
site, I have built up a collection of updated RPMS (I also use Dag
wieers' repository as well) as I need the newer packages, but I have
spent time testing them to make sure if their stability.
> 
> - How hard is it to make a RPM of what I have? I mean: if there is no
> 2.2 release for WBEL I guess I just will have to make one, right? :-)
> There are certain advantages with having everything installed as RPMs
> -- just see the first paragraph.


For the src.rpm I have there. just rpm --rebuild
postfix-2.1.5-3.osl.src.rpm

The next build I make of the RPM will have better control of what lookup
tables are enabled/disabled and I'm going to try and split up the
package so the lookup table support will be in separate packages. (ie. a
postfix-ldap  and postfix-mysql package).


> 
> Enough ramblings for now -- comments, anyone?
> 
> 
>     Karl-Koenig Koenigsson
> 
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