On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 06:07:13PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > With other software, usually I was pretty successful with the following
> > approach when I installed a binary package from the repository and then
> > found out that something in the program needs patching: getting the
> > corresponding source package, patching the file needed, rebuilding with
> > exactly the same options as the original binary package was built, and
>
> That should work, assuming there are no significant changes in the
> build infrastructure or installed libraries (Postfix by default
> tries to auto-detect ICU and PCRE support, so results may differ).
When upgrading from source, I run "make upgrade", which installs the
changed files. If the Postfix version has changed, or when it seems
prudent, I perform a "postfix restart". Other times, a "postfix reload"
or just no action at all are sufficient.
--
Viktor.
