Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
We currently use postfix as a part of our overall product, which means that it ends up being packaged inside our own RPM (or deb, etc) packages, and then redeployed when our product is installed. One thing I've noticed about the postfix build system in this is that it assumes you are building

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Quanah Gibson-Mount: We currently use postfix as a part of our overall product, which means that it ends up being packaged inside our own RPM (or deb, etc) packages, and then redeployed when our product is installed. One thing I've noticed about the postfix build system in this is that it

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:41:49AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: We currently use postfix as a part of our overall product, which means that it ends up being packaged inside our own RPM (or deb, etc) packages, and then redeployed when our product is installed. One thing I've noticed

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Monday, February 09, 2009 12:57 PM -0500 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: Of the numerous software applications we build as the underlying components to our product, Postfix is the only one that goes to such pains. Is there a way that I'm missing to turn off

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Terry Carmen
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: We currently use postfix as a part of our overall product, which means that it ends up being packaged inside our own RPM (or deb, etc) packages, and then redeployed when our product is installed. One thing I've noticed about the postfix build system in this is that

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:02:33AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: You have not read PACKAGE_README. This is really the answer. I missed this document, things should work fine with it. One minor nit in the document, it uses xargs to collect a file list for tar, but the file list may be

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:17:08PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:02:33AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: You have not read PACKAGE_README. This is really the answer. I missed this document, things should work fine with it. One minor nit in the

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:02:33AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: You have not read PACKAGE_README. This is really the answer. I missed this document, things should work fine with it. One minor nit in the document, it uses xargs to collect a file list for tar,

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:13:55PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: One minor nit in the document, it uses xargs to collect a file list for tar, but the file list may be too long for one command invocation: % cd INSTALL_ROOT % rm -f SOMEWHERE/outputfile % find . \! -type d

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:59:02PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:13:55PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: One minor nit in the document, it uses xargs to collect a file list for tar, but the file list may be too long for one command invocation: % cd

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:19:26PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Monday, February 09, 2009 12:57 PM -0500 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: http://www.postfix.org/PACKAGE_README.html And just to confirm, the steps here worked beautifully, thank you. :)

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Quanah Gibson-Mount: --On Monday, February 09, 2009 12:57 PM -0500 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: http://www.postfix.org/PACKAGE_README.html And just to confirm, the steps here worked beautifully, thank you. :) I did have to use an install root of /../

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Monday, February 09, 2009 12:57 PM -0500 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: http://www.postfix.org/PACKAGE_README.html And just to confirm, the steps here worked beautifully, thank you. :) I did have to use an install root of /../ since it won't take /. I

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:41:34PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: It would be nice if there was someway for it to recognize it was already built with a prefix, so no need to go down multiple layers. But I have an easily working solution to it. :) It's good to hear that the instructions