On Thu, Dec 30, 2004, stephane Lentz wrote:

> I just noticed a small bug in the sendmail.spec :
> since sendmail 8.13.0 MILTER is activated by default cf extract from
> RELEASE_NOTES :
> <<
>         Enable generic mail filter API (milter) by default.  To turn
>                 it off, add -DMILTER=0 to the compile time options.
> >>
>
> So even with the default :  %option       with_milter   no
> MILTER support is taken into account :
>  echo | /openpkg/sbin/sendmail   -d0.1
> Version 8.13.1+
>  Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
>                 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB PIPELINING SCANF USERDB 
> XDEBUG
> ....
>
> I propose to set with_milter to yes as MILTER is now activated by default
> (and if with_milter is set to no just add -DMILTER=0 to conf_sendmail_ENVDEF)
>
> Milter is really a "must" for any sendmail admin ...

Good catch. Thanks for the hint. I've now changed the with_milter
handling to use -DMILTER=0 and also made with_milter=yes the default:
http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=20922

> Another topic, I still have to manage some Ultra30 and Ultra60 servers
> running Solaris 7.
> Can you confirm that Openpkg won't work on Solaris 7 ?

Well, at least we ourself _never_ tried OpenPKG on Solaris 7 because we
either have Solaris 2.6 or already 8, 9 and 10 deployed. Solaris 7 was
not out for very long, so we don't have it. But because OpenPKG still
works on 2.6 (at least to some extend) and just fine under Solaris 8, I
expect that it still works to some extend (at least the CORE packages
and most of BASE) under Solaris 7.

> Do you advise moving to
> Solaris 8, 9 or 10 for such hardware ?

Well, isn't Solaris 7 already end-of-life and no vendor support any
longer available? Anyway, I personally would no longer run anything
below Solaris 8 in a production environment and even Solaris 8 I
personally would already upgrade to Solaris 9 if possible.

> I also mentionned Openpkg to some admins still using RH 8 and 9.
> Did some people set-up Openpkg on such old distros ?

Yes, we had OpenPKG under both RedHat 8 and RedHat 9. But always keep
in mind that OS support depends on the OpenPKG release version. Older
versions usually run fine under older OS versions because for those
they were done at the time of their release. Newer OpenPKG versions
might still work fine under older OS versions, but because it was no
longer made sure that all packages work for them, there is always a
small number of packages expected which now fail to build and/or run
under the old OS versions.

> PS : BTW I'm using OpenPKG 2.2 on SuSE 9.2 x86.
> No problem so far

Well, SuSE versions 9.x is for what OpenPKG 2.2 was both intended and
ported to. So it would be strange if it doesn't work there... ;-)

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
                                       www.engelschall.com

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