On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:19:26PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Monday, February 09, 2009 12:57 PM -0500 Victor Duchovni
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> <http://www.postfix.org/PACKAGE_README.html>
>
> And just to confirm, the steps here worked beautifully, thank you. :)
>
> I did have to use an install root of /../ since it won't take /. I build
> with a prefix of /opt/zimbra/postfix-<version> already, so it kept
> installing into /opt/zimbra/postfix-<version>/opt/zimbra/postfix-<version>
> and /opt/zimbra/postfix-<version>/opt/zimbra/data/spool/postfix.
>
> It would be nice if there was someway for it to recognize it was already
> built with a prefix, so no need to go down multiple layers. But I have an
> easily working solution to it. :)
This is easily solved with symbolic links:
$ ln -s / /some/where/.root
postfix-install install_root=/some/where/.root ...
Also, you can use custom installation parameters when installing,
and them "postconf -e" to updat them back to the correct paths.
postfix-install ... \
config_directory=/etc \
command_directory=/sbin \
html_directory=/html \
...
This will put everything directly under the install-root. The resulting
main.cf will record these installation parameters, so you update them with
"postconf -c /some/where/ -e ...." after the install. Update both the
config_directory and daemon_directory copies to put back the compile-time
defaults for all the parameters.
In any case, main.cf installation is a tricky business, since you MUST
not clobber existing main.cf files from users, and potentially need to
support installation into user-selected $command_directory, ... taking
all the locations from the existing main.cf. The only thing the user
can't move is the default config_directory (/etc/postfix in may cases).
--
Viktor.
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