Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:05:05 +0100 From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> To: "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DMA -- difference between base and port? Message-ID: <X%2BCPcYwYnnb9Xtfk@home.opsec.eu> In-Reply-To: <27a72fde-d96c-25e6-ff62-85767da510b7@prime.gushi.org> References: <27a72fde-d96c-25e6-ff62-85767da510b7@prime.gushi.org>
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Hi! > At the day job we've been using mail/dma port for a number of years now, > and the rollout and config of files in /usr/local/etc/dma is part of our > deploy process. > > It only recently occurred to us that there was a "dma" in base since > probably 11.0 (whomever wrote the release notes missed that -- and the > manpage doesn't mention when it was added to FreeBSD). > > We notice that the "newaliases" function in /etc/mail/mailer.conf is > missing from the port version -- which means if you're using ports dma, > you probably want to set newaliases to something like /usr/bin/true (dma > doesn't use an aliases db, so there's no need to rebuild one, as > newaliases would). Again. something we noticed in our deployment process > with puppet. > > I can't find a feature-by-feature comparison for what one would install > the port for (other than inertia, like we have). > > There's no "version" command that I can find in DMA. (tried -h, -?, -v > --version, -V). > > Does "our" DMA track the Dragonfly version (like the base sendmail or > openssl track world) or is it completely forked and unlikely to > incorporate changes? This would be useful in feature comparison. > > Is it worth mentioning this in the pkg-message for mail/dma? Yes, thanks for the heads-up. Can you submit patches against the base 'dma' man page and the port dma for those issues ? -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 Now what ?
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