Le 05/02/2011 00:34, Joe a écrit : > On 02/04/2011 03:13 PM, mouss wrote: >> Le 04/02/2011 20:42, Joe a écrit : >>> I always try to work with the package management system to keep things >>> sane and manageable if possible. postfix-2.7 and 2.8 rpms and srpms are >>> available for centos from several sources. It's pretty easy to replace >>> the ancient postfix package with a fairly up to date one, and it's one >>> of the first things I'd do after a centos or rhel install. >>> >>> I see that rhel 6 comes with postfix-2.6.6 which is better, but still a >>> bit conservative. Not all of the rhel/centos packages are out of date, >>> but they do seem quite sluggish about making any MTA changes. >>> >>> FWIW debian/ubuntu seem to be much more current on the versions of >>> postfix they ship, but even then it's not a bad idea to install a more >>> recent package than what they ship with. >>> >>> Joe >> guys, we at the bsd balcony find it funny to see linuxers fighting each >> other with "my distro is better" and "I can compile faster than you", >> and more funnily "I was born to destroy bill gates empire". > > I'm at a loss as to where you think you're seeing a fight.
maybe I took it the way I should not, but reading the messages again doesn't help me change my mind. anyway, let's skip... what I mean is: there's no point complaining about why a distro has old packages. if you use a system/distro, you need to take into account both the system and the packages. if you chose linux because "there's nothing but linux", then chose a distro because "it's the best", then don't complain about its packages. before you do, try to contribute. > I merely > mentioned options for upgrading postix packages on various linux > distros. I've used all the above mentioned distros and more. I have not > indicated a preference for one over the other, I consider them all useful. > so do I. I may have taken into account other discussions (from other threads) where people complain about the package age in various distros. I don't consider upgrading to the latest software, be that postfix or apache, to be my religion. I certainly use the latest postfix version on freebsd, even more recent than what the port provides (hey Sahil!), but that's because I know how bsd pkgsrc/ports work and because it's easy. for example, here's how to use the 2.9-20110120 on freebsd: # cd /usr/ports/mail/ # cp -r postfix-current postfix-last # cd postfix-last -> change the DISTVERSION in Makefile # vi Makefile .. DISTVERSION= 2.9-20110120 .. -> download the tarball # make fetch -> compute sha1 & size and update distinfo: # vi distinfo SHA256 (postfix/postfix-2.9-20110120.tar.gz) = 88dae90c52aa7eabf2a6dd3a9c4364240062419ff6fd2a814f4910a0e991e7a7 SIZE (postfix/postfix-2.9-20110120.tar.gz) = 3638193 -> update pkg-plist to add tlsproxy (so that a pkg_delete removes all the stuff) # diff pkg-plist ../postfix-current/ 37d36 < libexec/postfix/tlsproxy 234d232 < %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/tlsproxy.8.html -> build and install # make install clean