Glad you approve of the plan. Erik
On Nov 30, 2007 8:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > This is great. And your plan is solid. > > Regards, > > Nick > > > The QmailToaster will not be merged into some other repo. I will be > > creating a repo for the QmailToaster only. > > > > This is because automatic updates for things in rpmforge are okay, but > > require a little special care on the QmailToaster. > > > > For example if you update spamassassin while the server is live, > > spamassassin will no longer be able to find the supplemental files > > needed and crash. A newer clamdscan trying to access an older clamd > > may crash. > > > > Because of this there will be a qmailtoaster repo and an update > > script, to be run via cron or manually, that does the following: > > > > 1) Shut down qmail > > 2) Run yum --enablerepo=qmailtoaster update, as our repo file will > > always be enabled=0 > > 3) Qmail cdb > > 4) Start Qmail > > > > Also, all config files are going to be broken out into a separate rpm > > just for config files called config-toaster. This will never be > > updated, to ensure that your configs persist after every update. > > > > Hope this helps clarify things a bit. > > > > Thanks, > > Erik > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
