On 10/3/07, elw at stderr.org <elw at stderr.org> wrote: > > Nobody has previously proposed postfix. Do we have a package anywhere > > already? > > > Explicitly decoupling sendmail updates from other things - and ripping the > explicit dependencies out of core bits of ON - would be a wonderful step > toward making a substitution of postfix in for sendmail easier.
What dependencies? There is a reasonable question to ask, though. In cases like this where there are multiple ways of providing the same functionality do we want some form of alternates mechanism, or simply mark the alternates incompatible with each other so you can only ever have one of the alternates installed. > The current situation in Solaris is that a machine being used as a postfix > server is very difficult to patch. ;) [You can do it, but you really > have got to do some other prep work first... like making sure that SUNWsm* > package files are all in the proper pre-postfix locations... which is why > nobody at my site does it.] Huh? Just pkgrm the sendmail packages (snagging a copy of /bin/vacation if you need it), install postfix, and patch away as normal. Works for me. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
