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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:36:57 -0500
From:      Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To:        Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>, Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>, Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>
Subject:   Re: "postfix-current" broken on amd64 platform
Message-ID:  <837B0CE2-F5DE-4D75-9FAE-044574D00E30@tandon.net>
In-Reply-To: <CADLo839cfXjJYNJDGb-FhvXMm6sAaFw6Ukf=3akGhquz_DiRfA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20111116140223.GI68080@home.opsec.eu> <3Sk9KR4s2czk2RT@spike.porcupine.org> <CADLo839cfXjJYNJDGb-FhvXMm6sAaFw6Ukf=3akGhquz_DiRfA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 Nov 2011 16:00, "Wietse Venema" <wietse@porcupine.org> wrote:
>>=20
>> Kurt Jaeger:
>>> Hi!
>>>=20
>>>>>>>>  Postconf opens a socket to determine the mynetworks value
> (it
>>>>>>>>  determines the local interfaces and their netmasks).
>>> [...]
>>>> Postfix does none of that.
>>>=20
>>> The fbsd postfix-current port during the post-install script does
>>> something which fails on a jail-based build-cluster where the
>>> jail itself has no network connectivity.
>>=20
>> Would it be possible to give the jail a loopback interface?
>>=20
>> I don't mind if FreeBSD improves its build environment such that
>> it breaks the build after 12 years. If adding a loopback interface
>> fixes this, then we can all move on to more interesting things.
>>=20
>>       Wietse
>>=20
>=20
> Clamav uses loopback on its testing phase, and works fine on the build
> cluster.

What irks me is that all other Postfix versions (that also call postconf) ha=
ve no problem building/installing on the cluster.=



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