Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:43:30 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Ray Kohler" <rkohler1@cox.rr.com> Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Preserve Postfix When Upgrading? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEABCOAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <01d3c5005021d12FE4@Mail4.mgfairfax.rr.com>
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Sendmail has a wrapper function just for this situation. This was just talked about in great detail this month. Search the archives. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=%27sendmail+wrapper%27&btnG=Google+S earch&meta=group%3Dmailing.freebsd.* -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ray Kohler Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:06 PM To: f.johan.beisser; Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserve Postfix When Upgrading? On Monday 28 January 2002 09:02 pm, Ray Kohler wrote: > 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. Ignore this. My bad, I got mixed up and naturally went and checked only _after_ sending this off. The other poster is correct. -- Ray Kohler [Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable. -- Edwin Meese III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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