Re: Is it safe to recompile and install qmail after patching.

[Peter van Dijk]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:49:15PM +0000, Eng. Ramy M. Hassan wrote:
> On a production environment is it safe to patch qmail source and make
> setup check once again.
> Any precautions should be taken ?

Yes, stop qmail while doing 'make setup check', and make sure your
patches don't break anything.

Applying the big-todo patch onto a production environment is not
trivial, for example.

Greetz, Peter.