Re: misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ? (and MacOSX patch)

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > Will your patch be added to main source tree at any time, or is it > > something I'll need to tweak/modify & apply when I upgrade? > > My best guess is that Wietse will likely adopt something functionally > equivalent wrt the compile-tim

Re: misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ? (and MacOSX patch)

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
Hi Viktor, On Sat, Apr 6, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > You can either create a "postdrop" group, or with the patch re-use the > existing "maildrop" group, which makes it easier to transition between > the system and your custom Postfix, since file permissions will be the > same. I r

Re: misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ? (and MacOSX patch)

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
Huh? On Sat, Apr 6, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > you missed COMPLETLY what i saied Well there's ONE thing you said that makes some sense ...

Re: misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ? (and MacOSX patch)

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > and why do you not build a package based on your distros one? Because (1) I'm no longer intersted in someone's 'downstream idea' of what version and how I should configure, build & use postfix. (2) I've had enough of being told "go talk to

Re: misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ? (and MacOSX patch)

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
Viktor, Thanks for the answers. I thing I have what I need for now; I'll give it a try in a but. Thanks! On Sat, Apr 6, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:53:54AM -0700, ixlo...@sent.at wrote: > > > > I am attaching a patch for "MacOSX", where a bare-metal "

Re: misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ? (and MacOSX patch)

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
Hi On Sat, Apr 6, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:25:28AM -0700, ixlo...@sent.at wrote: > > > "The non-interactive version ("make upgrade") needs the > > /etc/postfix/main.cf file from a previous installation. > > It works just fine without one. If you don

misunderstanding INSTALL "vs" compile-time config ?

2013-04-06 Thread ixloran
Hi, I'm finally taking the plunge and moving from distro-pacakged Postfix to building from source. I'm reading INSTALL.html 4.4 - Overriding built-in parameter default settings All Postfix configuration parameters can be changed by editing a Postfix configuration file, except for one: the param