Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-06-15 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Simon J Muddsjm...@pobox.com wrote:
 sjm...@pobox.com (Simon J Mudd) writes:

 For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able
 to find:
         postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and
         postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

 Updated to 2.6.1 as I hadn't seen Wietse's 2.6.1 update.

 Simon

Simon,

Thanks for your efforts and hard work. Is the 2.6.1 RPM download still
available? I can't seem to find it unless I am looking under the wrong
spot.

- Carlos


RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-26 Thread Brian Collins
  For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able
  to find:
  postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and
  postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
 
 Updated to 2.6.1 as I hadn't seen Wietse's 2.6.1 update.

Thanks a bunch, Simon.

--Brian




Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-24 Thread Simon J Mudd
sjm...@pobox.com (Simon J Mudd) writes:

 For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able
 to find:
 postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and
 postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

Updated to 2.6.1 as I hadn't seen Wietse's 2.6.1 update.

Simon



Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-24 Thread Chas
 sjm...@pobox.com (Simon J Mudd) writes:

 For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able
 to find:
 postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and
 postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

 Updated to 2.6.1 as I hadn't seen Wietse's 2.6.1 update.

 Simon



Thank you Simon.

Chas.



Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-23 Thread Simon J Mudd
sjm...@pobox.com (Simon J Mudd) writes:

 I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
 to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these
 rpms I build.

For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able
to find:
postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and
postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

on my web/ftp site. Please treat them lightly, and let me know off
list of any issues you find so I can address them.

Also updated is the smtpd multi-line patch which can be found at:

ftp://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfix-2.6.0-multiline-greeting.patch

Regards,

Simon


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 18, 2009 14:48:12 PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
 
 I, for one, would urge the more sophisticated users, who need the
 latest release, to learn how to use/build source RPMs, and build the
 official Postfix release via source RPM that resembles the vendor's
 support source RPM, but uses a more recent Postfix version.

just for the record: there are cases where willingness or
unwillingness to learn rpm packaging is irrelevant. Like when one, for
whatever reason, has no possibility to set up any extra system
(including a virtual machine) where packages could be built. I won't
explain it in more detail because it was already done here about one
year ago, when the exact identical discussion took place.

Marco
-- 
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software is used *around* you:http://digifreedom.net/node/84


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 18, 2009 20:38:54 PM +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote:
 
 I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am
 likely to respond more if there are people who show an interest in
 these rpms I build.

+1 for me, thanks if you find the time!

Marco
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software is used *around* you:http://digifreedom.net/node/84


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-19 Thread YOSHIMURA Keitaro
 On Mon, May 18, 2009 20:38:54 PM +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote:
  
  I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am
  likely to respond more if there are people who show an interest in
  these rpms I build.
 
 +1 for me, thanks if you find the time!

2.7 snapshot rpms for CentOSv4 here!:)
http://ramix.jp/RPM/4/postfix-2.7-snapshot/

2.6.x for CentOSv4 here!:)
http://ramix.jp/RPMS/4/postfix-2.6/

This repos was only include japanese document.:)
can use repos via yum or apt.

% postconf mail_version mydomain
mail_version = 2.7-20090511
mydomain = ramix.jp

# but not have CentOSv5 build env...

-- 
| YOSHIMURA Keitaro/ramsy @JUSTPLAYER
| ra...@ramix.jp
| http://ramix.jp/~ramsy/
| http://www.justplayer.co.jp/



RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-19 Thread Brian Collins
 I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
 to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these rpms
 I build.

+1 for me as well, Simon.  I appreciate your work and have used your RPMs
for years to keep my mail servers and filters up to date.






Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-19 Thread Carlos Williams
 I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
 to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these rpms
 I build.

I too am interested and would like to try it. I have never used
anything beyond the vendor supplied version of Postfix but am tired of
waiting for Red Hat to get their packages updated. Running v2.3 is way
too old for my needs.

I appreciate your time and help! Wish I had the know-how on how to
create them since I have the time...

- Carlos


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-18 Thread Simon J Mudd
lis...@newnanutilities.org (Brian Collins) writes:

  I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to
  get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
 
 Simon Mudd picks up the releases and makes good source and binary RPMs from
 them with lots of options.  However, he's a busy man and does not always get
 to them right after release.  A kindly-worded email to him might yield you
 an estimate of when he'll get to 2.6.

As I've said before I now have a lot less time to dedicate to Postfix than 
before. Also several years ago a lot of peole had an interest in the packages
I provided. I think that now for many people my rpms are not needed. RedHat's
rpms while not very up to date are good enough for most people.  Those that
need newer rpms probably rebuild the newer Fedora packages, unless they need
some of the more unusual features my rpms still provide.

I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these
rpms I build.

Others ask why not build from source. The simplicity of a single upgrade 
procedure
and reproducibility make this more favourable the more boxes you have to manage.
For those of us who have hundres of boxes to manage this makes life so much 
easier.

Simon


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-18 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 08:38:54PM +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote:

 Others ask why not build from source. The simplicity of a single upgrade
 procedure and reproducibility make this more favourable the more boxes
 you have to manage. For those of us who have hundres of boxes to manage
 this makes life so much easier.

My question was not why use RPMs. It was:

- Why use binary RPMs that are not supported by the underlying
  distribution?

The premise for the question was that either one wants supported binaries,
in which case, one really should use what the O/S vendor supports. Or one
(a more sophisticated user) wants the latest vendor unsupported release,
in which case, by all means still build an RPM, but pulling down binaries,
even from Simon who we all know and trust, seems risky.

I, for one, would urge the more sophisticated users, who need the latest
release, to learn how to use/build source RPMs, and build the official Postfix
release via source RPM that resembles the vendor's support source RPM,
but uses a more recent Postfix version.

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RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-18 Thread Dan Horne
 
 I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
 to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these
 rpms I build.

[DH] +1 for interest.  I have begun building mail servers on multiple
VPS's using CentOS and I use your RPM's all the time.  I'd be very
interested in 2.6 RPM's.

No hurry though.



RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-18 Thread Voytek Eymont

On Tue, May 19, 2009 6:41 am, Dan Horne wrote:


 I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
 to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these rpms I
 build.

 [DH] +1 for interest.  I have begun building mail servers on multiple
 VPS's using CentOS and I use your RPM's all the time.  I'd be very
 interested in 2.6 RPM's.

+1 for interest
I use/have used your RPMs, and, built RPMs with my desired options
following your instructions, many thanks again


-- 
Voytek



Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Corey Chandler

Victor Duchovni wrote:


Yes, some of the better distribution supported patches are not ill-advised.
But occasionally, one gets something along the lines of the Debian OpenSSL
fiasco (notably the Debian *Postfix* patches have been pretty good, and
historically RedHat was adding rather questionable changes to Postfix)
  
Sorry, I missed the background on this one-- what did RedHat do to 
Postfix that was questionable?


--
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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Corey Chandler

MacShane, Tracy wrote:
 
  


Yes, there is unfortunately such a need, because RHEL5 is only up to
Postfix 2.3, and we require functionality from Postfix 2.5 and up
(destination_rate_delay). 


This leads to an interesting question all its own:

I'm running the same Postfix config I built years ago under probably 2.2 
or 2.3.  Is there a document somewhere or a process by which I can 
modernize the config?  Periodically I'll be told that a line I'm using 
is deprecated by something newer, and I'd like to get with the times...

The OS administrators do not permit GCC and
devel libraries on the SMTP servers I maintain (and fair enough). 
Nor should they-- this is what a staging environment is for.  Build it 
on a staging box, test the heck out of it, and then push the binaries 
out to the production farm.

Also,
installing non-RPM packages can obviously cause clashes when installing
other RH updates (at least RPM is clever enough not to try installing
Postfix 2.3 patches when it finds 2.5 already installed).
  


Urm... add Postfix to your yum excludes file and the problem goes away.

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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Stefan Jakobs
On Thursday, 14. Mai 2009 09:54:56 Corey Chandler wrote:
 MacShane, Tracy wrote:
snip
  The OS administrators do not permit GCC and
  devel libraries on the SMTP servers I maintain (and fair enough).

 Nor should they-- this is what a staging environment is for.  Build it
 on a staging box, test the heck out of it, and then push the binaries
 out to the production farm.

Ehm, isn't that why you use RPM? You compile the binaries and build the 
package on a compatible system. With the package you have an easy way to 
distribute the binaries.

  Also,
  installing non-RPM packages can obviously cause clashes when installing
  other RH updates (at least RPM is clever enough not to try installing
  Postfix 2.3 patches when it finds 2.5 already installed).

 Urm... add Postfix to your yum excludes file and the problem goes away.

Postfix provides an MTA which is a quite important part of a *nix system. To 
remove the MTA package from system breaks a lot of dependencies. To avoid that 
you install your own package.

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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/5/14 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com:
 If the purpose of using RPM files is to facilitate binary updates from
 distribution servers, wait until *your distribution* upgrades to a newer
 supported version of Postfix.

 If you incorporate your own Postfix into your O/S, why download some
 random stranger's binary RPM?

 Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
 distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
 source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
 dropped into it?

Sure; as people have already said, some vendors (cough, Redhat) don't
really keep up to date. I haven't checked all their release channels
on offer, but the core set of packages only includes Postfix 2.3.3.
*And* it doesn't come with mysql/pgsql map support. This is when you
go and get the package from the Centos-plus channel and then tell yum
to ignore Redhat updates to Postfix so it doesn't clobber your working
setup one day...

So your real question is probably, why not just use Postfix's
source?. I can only speak for myself and my employer, but we maintain
a lot of diverse systems, so we're a bit allergic to non-packaged
software, no matter how easy it is to maintain (I've never used
non-packaged Postfix, maybe it's really easy to maintain, but that's
not the point). Packaged software is basically a requirement for
sysadmin sanity. We could produce packaged versions of Postfix from
source and put them in our internal repo, but we just don't have the
time and resources to keep on top of updates and whatnot.

I suspect people want something like DAG (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/).
Unfortunately for them, they don't have Postfix because everyone's
already got it, just not the cutting edge. Fedora 10 is up to Postfix
2.5.5, I figure they'll have Postfix 2.6 in the next major version
release. Which is like, every fortnight, right? :)


Corey:
 I'm running the same Postfix config I built years ago under probably
 2.2 or 2.3.  Is there a document somewhere or a process by which I
 can modernize the config?  Periodically I'll be told that a line I'm
 using is deprecated by something newer, and I'd like to get with the times...

Sure, you probably want upgrade-configuration, see `man 1 postfix`


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Kaj Niemi


On May 14, 2009, at 02:03, Victor Duchovni wrote:


Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
dropped into it?



A bit off topic already but some organisations find it easier to pack  
everything up in rpms, debs or pkgs and then deploy than compiling  
using two of the most common deployment methods: compile and install  
blindly or alternatively compile, tar it and then deploy. :)  
Especially on RedHat platforms deploying everything in rpm format is  
very convenient, makes for good bookkeeping and preserves any  
dependencies on other applications even across upgrades as long as you  
do it correctly.




Kaj
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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Kaj Niemi

Hi,

On May 14, 2009, at 01:07, Just E. Mail wrote:

I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where  
to get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.



The SRPM from Fedora should compile fine on at least EL4 and EL5. I  
suggest you download it and build it yourself instead of downloading  
blindly someone else's pre-compiled one.




Kaj
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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Kaj Niemi


On May 14, 2009, at 12:25, Barney Desmond wrote:


Sure; as people have already said, some vendors (cough, Redhat) don't
really keep up to date. I haven't checked all their release channels
on offer, but the core set of packages only includes Postfix 2.3.3.
*And* it doesn't come with mysql/pgsql map support. This is when you
go and get the package from the Centos-plus channel and then tell yum
to ignore Redhat updates to Postfix so it doesn't clobber your working
setup one day...


Typically software coming from the base operating system is not always  
the one you want to use IF you happen to be in a very specialized  
environment. For most people postfix 2.3.3 with RHEL will be  
completely fine for the entire lifetime of that particular server and  
they most likely won't miss mysql or postgresql support either. ;-)  
With RHEL you're paying for stability and continuity over a longer  
time period - not for the latest and greatest snapshot with a specific  
feature at any point in time. :-) RHEL6, when it eventually arrives,  
will most likely have a later version of postfix just like RHEL5  
(2.3.3) has a more recent version than RHEL4 (2.2.10). See http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ 
 for info on the life cycle and erratas (updates).



sysadmin sanity. We could produce packaged versions of Postfix from
source and put them in our internal repo, but we just don't have the
time and resources to keep on top of updates and whatnot.


We do this and have done so for the last 8 years.



Kaj
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RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Brian Collins
 I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to
 get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.

Simon Mudd picks up the releases and makes good source and binary RPMs from
them with lots of options.  However, he's a busy man and does not always get
to them right after release.  A kindly-worded email to him might yield you
an estimate of when he'll get to 2.6.

But certainly don't expect the big Linux package-based releases to make RPMs
of their own any time soon - Red Hat 5.3 ships with 2.3.

--Brian




RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Brian Collins
 Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
 distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
 source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
 dropped into it?

Because those of us who run package-based systems find things work better
when we have Postfix in a package as well.  This is rarely a problem for me
on CentOS/RHEL systems, because I get Simon's source, set the options I
want, and compile my own.  Simon does a great job of keeping his source RPMs
as close to vanilla as possible, and I don't really need the latest version
on most of my systems.  Red Hat, on the other hand, has been known to
patch Postfix to the point of frustrating admins.  In addition, they are,
as someone already pointed out, several revisions back.  Looks like Fedora
11 is currently at 2.5, though.

--Brian




Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Brian Collins lis...@newnanutilities.org:
  I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to
  get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
 
 Simon Mudd picks up the releases and makes good source and binary RPMs from
 them with lots of options.  However, he's a busy man and does not always get
 to them right after release.  A kindly-worded email to him might yield you
 an estimate of when he'll get to 2.6.

He's a bit busy right now due to family issues.

-- 
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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Roderick A. Anderson

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

* Brian Collins lis...@newnanutilities.org:

I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to
get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.

Simon Mudd picks up the releases and makes good source and binary RPMs from
them with lots of options.  However, he's a busy man and does not always get
to them right after release.  A kindly-worded email to him might yield you
an estimate of when he'll get to 2.6.


He's a bit busy right now due to family issues.


Sorry to hear that but in the mean time you can grab .src.rpm for a 
prior release, the tarball for the current release and modify the .spec 
file to reflect this.


As mentioned in an earlier message Simon's RPMs are built as simply as 
possible so can be handled this way.



\\||/
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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread J Sloan
Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

 Sorry to hear that but in the mean time you can grab .src.rpm for a
 prior release, the tarball for the current release and modify the
 .spec file to reflect this.
I've been doing this for our smtp servers for some time. The suse
factory postfix srpm compiles nicely on SLES and is usually fairly
current, but if need be, as mentioned above, it's not too difficult to
drop in a newer tarball from postfix.org and tweak the spec file before
rebuilding.

Joe



Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Corey Chandler

Didn't get the message you replied to, so I'm bolting it on to yours.

mouss wrote:


Stefan Jakobs a écrit :
  

On Thursday, 14. Mai 2009 09:54:56 Corey Chandler wrote:


MacShane, Tracy wrote:
  



Also,
installing non-RPM packages can obviously cause clashes when installing
other RH updates (at least RPM is clever enough not to try installing
Postfix 2.3 patches when it finds 2.5 already installed).


Urm... add Postfix to your yum excludes file and the problem goes away.
  
Postfix provides an MTA which is a quite important part of a *nix system. To 
remove the MTA package from system breaks a lot of dependencies. To avoid that 
you install your own package.



Yes, I'm aware of that.  If you reread the parent's use case, they're 
building a custom spin of Postfix from source.  Therefore, you want to 
ensure that postfix itself is excluded from updates so your install 
doesn't get overwritten by an earlier version; it doesn't usually, but I 
don't like to count on that.


--
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Living Legend / Systems Exorcist
Today's Excuse: We are a 100% Microsoft Shop



Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread Just E. Mail
I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to 
get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.


Jennifer


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:07:39PM -0600, Just E. Mail wrote:

 I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to get 
 RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.

If the purpose of using RPM files is to facilitate binary updates from
distribution servers, wait until *your distribution* upgrades to a newer
supported version of Postfix.

If you incorporate your own Postfix into your O/S, why download some
random stranger's binary RPM?

Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
dropped into it?

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Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni:
 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:07:39PM -0600, Just E. Mail wrote:
 
  I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to get 
  RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
 
 If the purpose of using RPM files is to facilitate binary updates from
 distribution servers, wait until *your distribution* upgrades to a newer
 supported version of Postfix.
 
 If you incorporate your own Postfix into your O/S, why download some
 random stranger's binary RPM?
 
 Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
 distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
 source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
 dropped into it?

Many platform-specific features are useful, but they haven't been
adopted into the official release primarily because of lack of
cycles (the code needs to be tested, and I can't realistically
build every release on every platform).

Ideally, the official release would provide non-broken versions
for these platform-specific features.

Wietse


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 07:26:34PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:

   I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to get 
   RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
  
  If the purpose of using RPM files is to facilitate binary updates from
  distribution servers, wait until *your distribution* upgrades to a newer
  supported version of Postfix.
  
  If you incorporate your own Postfix into your O/S, why download some
  random stranger's binary RPM?
  
  Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
  distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
  source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
  dropped into it?
 
 Many platform-specific features are useful, but they haven't been
 adopted into the official release primarily because of lack of
 cycles (the code needs to be tested, and I can't realistically
 build every release on every platform).

Sure, this fits in under the distribution supported use-case... What
puzzles me to some degree is the desire to find/install RPMs not supported
by the distribution...

Yes, some of the better distribution supported patches are not ill-advised.
But occasionally, one gets something along the lines of the Debian OpenSSL
fiasco (notably the Debian *Postfix* patches have been pretty good, and
historically RedHat was adding rather questionable changes to Postfix)

Fortunately, some of the more common unwise patches have been
discouraged by defensive changes in the Postfix source code...

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RE: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread MacShane, Tracy
 
 -Original Message-
 From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org 
 [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Victor Duchovni
 Sent: Thursday, 14 May 2009 9:04 AM
 To: postfix-users@postfix.org
 Subject: Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM
 
 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:07:39PM -0600, Just E. Mail wrote:
 
  I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody 
 know where to 
  get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
 
 If the purpose of using RPM files is to facilitate binary 
 updates from distribution servers, wait until *your 
 distribution* upgrades to a newer supported version of Postfix.
 
 If you incorporate your own Postfix into your O/S, why 
 download some random stranger's binary RPM?
 
 Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by 
 the distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with 
 the Postfix source, which is typically less likely to have 
 ill-advised patches dropped into it?
 

Yes, there is unfortunately such a need, because RHEL5 is only up to
Postfix 2.3, and we require functionality from Postfix 2.5 and up
(destination_rate_delay). The OS administrators do not permit GCC and
devel libraries on the SMTP servers I maintain (and fair enough). Also,
installing non-RPM packages can obviously cause clashes when installing
other RH updates (at least RPM is clever enough not to try installing
Postfix 2.3 patches when it finds 2.5 already installed).

It would certainly be useful if an approved distributor provided
reliable and up-to-date RPM and DEB packages with a sensible set of
options compiled in.


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread KLaM Postmaster
Victor Duchovni wrote:
 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:07:39PM -0600, Just E. Mail wrote:

   
 I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to get 
 RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
 

 If the purpose of using RPM files is to facilitate binary updates from
 distribution servers, wait until *your distribution* upgrades to a newer
 supported version of Postfix.

 If you incorporate your own Postfix into your O/S, why download some
 random stranger's binary RPM?

 Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
 distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
 source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
 dropped into it?

   
Some of us are not all of us are programmers, and we do not feel
comfortable or competent to do an install from source.
Just my own feelings.


Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-13 Thread KLaM Postmaster
Not only am I not competent to install Postfix, I should learn to type.