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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:54:51 -0600
From:      "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net>
To:        "'Giorgos Keramidas'" <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Sendmail patch questions...
Message-ID:  <004101c2e212$9427a4f0$0301a8c0@mike>
In-Reply-To: <20030304022249.GB681@gothmog.gr>

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On Monday, March 03, 2003 8:23 PM Giorgos Keramidas =
<mailto:keramida@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 2003-03-03 17:49, Mike Loiterman <mike@ascendency.net> wrote:
>> Just applied the patch to /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src
>> I'm running sendmail 8.11.6
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> What patch did you apply?
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>> 1.  Is this the correct location for the patch?
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> Depends on the patch.  If it's the one from www.sendmail.org for the
> 8.11.x versions of Sendmail, then yes... you applied it in the right
> part of the source tree.
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>> 2.  Do I need to do a `make world' or can I just do a make install
>> from with the /usr/src/contrib/sendmail directory and restart
>> sendmail?
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> It's probably better to do a full buildworld, to see if the patch
> breaks anything.  Note though that even if a buildworld succeeds,
> you're effectively trying to backport the fixes to an older,
> unsupported branch of development.  Without more testing it's not easy
> to answer questions like ``Will my Sendmail installation & setup work
> without any sort of problem afterwards?''
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> - Giorgos
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> PS: You can always upgrade to RELENG_4.  Gregory Neil Shapiro, the
> maintainer of Sendmail on FreeBSD, has already merged the latest
> Sendmail version (8.12.8) to the RELENG_4 branch.

Hrmm....

That seems like an awfull lot of upgrading for one patch (upgrading to =
RELENG_4).  My system is extremely stable and I'd hate to rock the boat =
for this tiny patch.  Seems like there is a better chance of something =
`breaking' during a full system upgrade rather then applying the patch =
and doing the buildworld.  I've only got about two years of FreeBSD =
experience so I may be missing something.  I certainly welcome input =
from more experienced admins.


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