Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:19:39 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org> Subject: Re: DMA -- difference between base and port? Message-ID: <op.0vzr21pukndu52@sjakie> In-Reply-To: <27a72fde-d96c-25e6-ff62-85767da510b7@prime.gushi.org> References: <27a72fde-d96c-25e6-ff62-85767da510b7@prime.gushi.org>
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:12:02 +0100, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote: > Hey there, > > 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? > > -Dan > On 13-CURRENT I have: # more /usr/src/contrib/dma/VERSION v0.11 But the version nr doesn't tell the whole story. There are some code syncs after 0.11. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commits/master/contrib/dma There is a PR to upgrade base to 0.13 already. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244630 Would love to see a sync with even newer code. I made a fix upstream myself. Regards, Ronald.
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