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From: Ray Kohler <rkohler1@cox.rr.com>
To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>,
	Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Subject: Re: Preserve Postfix When Upgrading?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:02:16 -0500
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On Monday 28 January 2002 08:54 pm, f.johan.beisser wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > I would like to upgrade to the 4.5-RELEASE.  However, I have
> > installed Postfix from the ports and want to be sure that
> > Sendmail won't overwrite Postfix during the upgrade.  What do I
> > need to do to keep Postfix?  I've searched the archives but
> > have been unable to find anything conclusive.
>
> dig through /etc/defaults/make.conf. there's an entire section of
> base install OS bits to not build, and not install.
>
> one of them happens to be sendmail.
>
> 	# To avoid building various parts of the base system:
>
> 	[snippage for space]
>
> 	#NO_SENDMAIL=   true    # do not build sendmail and related
>programs

You also need to set NO_MAILWRAPPER=  true in the same file.
NO_SENDMAIL supresses building of /usr/libexec/sendmail, and 
NO_MAILWRAPPER supresses the building of /usr/sbin/sendmail.

-- 
Ray Kohler
Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand
progress.

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