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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 06:12:07 -0400
From:      Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To:        Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: has Postfix new location of aliases.db?
Message-ID:  <43F6F18A-403F-4001-807E-07C6102DEB83@tandon.net>
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On Jun 5, 2009, at 3:12 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:25:01 -0400
> Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> As you can see, file /etc/mail/aliases was modified (target of
>>> symlink) and then aliases.db was generated by `newaliases` command
>>> as /etc/aliases.db
>>>
>>> Above is with postfix-2.5.6,1 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May
>>> 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009    GENERIC  i386
>>>
>>> This is with new postfix-2.6.1,1:
>>> # postconf -d | grep aliases
>>> alias_database =3D hash:/etc/mail/aliases
>>> alias_maps =3D hash:/etc/mail/aliases
>>
>> This was introduced with ports/134728, in which ALIAS_DB_MAP is
>> compiled in as hash:/etc/mail/aliases.  I've rolled this back to the
>> default value, which is system-dependent and chosen by
>> ${WRKSRC}/src/util/sys_defs.h, which in turn relies on the
>> ${WRKSRC}/makedefs script.
>>
>>> newaliases_path =3D /usr/local/bin/newaliases
>>
>> This is intentional and a good thing.  In mail/postfix prior to
>> 2.6.x, the change was made in main.cf instead of being compiled in as
>> a default; this is why you do not see it when viewing the *default*
>> postconf output in 2.5.x; try postconf newaliases_path (i.e. without
>> the -d flag).
>>
>>> And this is with older postfix-2.5.6,1:
>>> # postconf -d | grep aliases
>>> alias_database =3D hash:/etc/aliases
>>> alias_maps =3D hash:/etc/aliases
>>>
>>> There is definitely incompatible change in defaults :o(
>>
>> Indeed.  The attached patch (also filed as ports/135273) updates
>> Postfix to 2.6.2 and makes the aforementioned changes.
>
> Committed.
>
>> As a result, I don't think we need to touch ports/UPDATING.
>
> Oh yes, it's needed and committed. People that upgraded to 2.6.1 will
> run into the same problem again ;-)
>
> It's always better to be verbose rather that sparse.
> And it's even better not to violate POLA.

Touch=C3=A9.  Shame on myopic me. :)

--
Sahil Tandon=



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