Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:35:10 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, utisoft@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <4AE7D80E.10406@bah.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20091027234600.A93064@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <200910270916.31033.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <20091027021723.M88213@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <b79ecaef0910270216q14421922w4acf62103322c16a@mail.gmail.com> <20091027142502.Q91143@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <b79ecaef0910271341y1aea61a6pd7bcd6c96855da64@mail.gmail.com> <20091027191626.T92033@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <57d710000910271741p7429d4feh150ecbe6cddd3d2e@mail.gmail.com> <20091027202430.X92294@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <87d448wamy.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20091027234600.A93064@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >> <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> wrote: >>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting >>> language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why >>> people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar. Really, >>> let's go past this one more time: >>> >>> "Sure, sendmail.cf is hard to work with so the solution is you learn >>> m4!" >>> >>> Did you look at the link he offered? How helpful is that? >>> >>> Beside which, m4 is a PORT. So if sendmail is not configurable >>> without a port, why isn't it a port? >> >> Can we go back to our regular hacking, please? m4 is not a port: >> >> $ which m4 >> /usr/bin/m4 > > Evidently my package database is corrupt in some way, because it shows > m4 as > an installed port. I wonder how that happened, how to fix it, and if it > will bite if I leave it alone. > > %whereis m4 m4: /usr/bin/m4 /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/man1/m4.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/m4 It's not a package. If you want to fix it pkgdb -F
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