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 Not all of the rhel/centos packages are out of date,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

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