We currently use postfix as a part of our overall product, which means that
it ends up being packaged inside our own RPM (or deb, etc) packages, and
then redeployed when our product is installed. One thing I've noticed
about the postfix build system in this is that it assumes you are building
postfix specifically to be run on the box you're building it on, which in
what we are doing is not really the case.
As a part of all this, we also allow people to check out and build the FOSS
edition of our product. To make it easier on those who want to do this,
I'm trying to make it so they can build postfix as whatever user they want,
since our own install process takes care of setting up permission, etc, for
postfix. However, the postfix-install script doesn't seem to have a
concept of this, which makes it somewhat annoying to use, as I have to
essentially patch around it. Of the numerous software applications we
build as the underlying components to our product, Postfix is the only one
that goes to such pains. Is there a way that I'm missing to turn off this
behavior in postfix-install besides patching it to turn off its checks?
Thanks,
Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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