Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:29:29 -0000 From: Helge Oldach <ports-mail-spamassassin-jul13@oldach.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: beech@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin throws away precious auto-whitelist Message-ID: <201307121534.r6CFYrl8020609@sep.oldach.net>
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>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: Helge Oldach >Organization: >Confidential: no >Synopsis: ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin throws away precious auto-whitelist >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Category: ports >Class: sw-bug >Release: FreeBSD 9.1-679 i386 >Environment: System: FreeBSD localhost 9.1-679 FreeBSD 9.1-679 #0: Thu Apr 25 11:40:01 CEST 2013 toor@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HMO i386 >Description: With r319458 it was introduced to unconditionally remove /var/spool/spamd. This has at lest three undesireable side effects: 1) /var/spool/spamd often contains precious databases, for instance auto-whitelists collected over extended periods. These should certainly not go away after uninstall. 2) /var/spool/spamd is the home directory of the "spamd" user; it is created upon "mkuser spamd" and will be removed safely by a "rmuser spamd". Actually the port deinstall advises to do so manually, so there is absolutely no need to fiddle with it during automatic port deinstall. 3) Once /var/spool/spamd is removed after a (current) port deinstall, it is gone and will not be recreated during a fresh port re-install. This will lead to lots of error messages when running SpamAssassin under the "spamd" user, because its home directory is gone. And the databases mentioned above won't be re-created anyway... >How-To-Repeat: Deinstall, see if /var/spool/spamd is still there. It's not. :-( >Fix: Back out r319458.
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