Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:12:18 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, sahil@tandon.net, Alexander Subject: Re: has Postfix new location of aliases.db? Message-ID: <20090605101218.065861db@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20090605042500.GA7167@tandon.net> References: <4A279C92.4020305@quip.cz> <20090604135318.0178eb66@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20090604130638.17461dkh10lqyhgk@webmail.leidinger.net> <4A27B1FC.6030904@quip.cz> <20090605042500.GA7167@tandon.net>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:25:01 -0400
Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
> > As you can see, file /etc/mail/aliases was modified (target of
> > symlink) and then aliases.db was generated by `newaliases` command
> > as /etc/aliases.db
> >
> > Above is with postfix-2.5.6,1 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May
> > 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 GENERIC i386
> >
> > This is with new postfix-2.6.1,1:
> > # postconf -d | grep aliases
> > alias_database =3D hash:/etc/mail/aliases
> > alias_maps =3D hash:/etc/mail/aliases
>=20
> This was introduced with ports/134728, in which ALIAS_DB_MAP is
> compiled in as hash:/etc/mail/aliases. I've rolled this back to the
> default value, which is system-dependent and chosen by
> ${WRKSRC}/src/util/sys_defs.h, which in turn relies on the
> ${WRKSRC}/makedefs script.
>=20
> > newaliases_path =3D /usr/local/bin/newaliases
>=20
> This is intentional and a good thing. In mail/postfix prior to
> 2.6.x, the change was made in main.cf instead of being compiled in as
> a default; this is why you do not see it when viewing the *default*
> postconf output in 2.5.x; try postconf newaliases_path (i.e. without
> the -d flag).
>=20
> > And this is with older postfix-2.5.6,1:
> > # postconf -d | grep aliases
> > alias_database =3D hash:/etc/aliases
> > alias_maps =3D hash:/etc/aliases
> >
> > There is definitely incompatible change in defaults :o(
>=20
> Indeed. The attached patch (also filed as ports/135273) updates
> Postfix to 2.6.2 and makes the aforementioned changes.=20
Committed.
> As a result, I don't think we need to touch ports/UPDATING.
Oh yes, it's needed and committed. People that upgraded to 2.6.1 will
run into the same problem again ;-)
It's always better to be verbose rather that sparse.
And it's even better not to violate POLA.
--=20
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