On 2024-04-15 12:32, Lexi Winter wrote:
hello,
i am working on a patch for mailwrapper, which i'd like to move from
FreeBSD-utilities to its own package. however i'm a little stymied by
usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile[0], which seems to do a few fairly odd
things for the benefit of src users, such as linking mailwrapper to
either dma or sendmail if mailwrapper itself isn't built.
i'd like to significantly simplify the logic here so that if mailwrapper
is enabled (${MK_MAILWRAPPER} == yes), it's always installed in the
usual place, and doesn't pretend to be dma or sendmail, and there is no
special handling depending on the value of ${MK_SENDMAIL} and
${MK_DMAGENT}.
this might require some changes to either sendmail or dma (which of
course i'd test before submitting anything), but in principle, does this
sound like a reasonable idea?
i am concious that many/most people don't use pkgbase yet and we
shouldn't break things for them, but this seems like an ideal to time to
clean up some of this legacy stuff.
As I read it, and use it; mailwrapper(8) simply *assumes* that there is
*some*
default (based on available options) MTA already installed, and points to it
as
needed. The sendmail/dma stuff is there as a system isn't really complete if
one
can't send mail. How had you intended to improve the process?
Strictly speaking; this process could probably just as easily be accomplished
with a shell script living in /usr/(local/)libexec. Had you a specific
direction
in mind?
[0] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile
--Chris
