Folks, if you build Postfix from source code, then it needs UNIX
tools including a compiler and various scripting languages.
Such a configuration is fundamentally in conflict with the idea of
running a minimal system.
I have added a check for a missing 'm4' command, but I do not expect
to enumera
On 02/25/2018 09:52 PM, @lbutlr wrote:
Really? What runs services automatically? The last time I setup freeeBSD 11.1
(last month) it wasn't even running sshd until I specifically enabled it.
There are other distributions of POSIX-compliant operating systems.
(Let's forego the religious war ab
On 26 Feb 2018, at 0:52, @lbutlr wrote:
Really? What runs services automatically?
The whole RedHat family, even Fedora Core through last month. SLES &
openSUSE at least through 11.1. Whatever the current stable Ubuntu was
about a year ago.
The last time I setup freeeBSD 11.1 (last month) i
On 02/25/2018 07:17 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
The package that don't matter are just taking a little bit of space,
and it is hardly worth building a system by hand to save a tiny amount
(percentage-wise) of space.
But storage footprint is re-emerging as an issue with the rise of
"cloud" systems li
On 2018-02-25 (20:17 MST), Bill Cole
wrote:
>
> On 25 Feb 2018, at 2:54 (-0500), @lbutlr wrote:
>
>> I used to do the same back int eh 90s where trying to slim down the OS was
>> really worth the effort. Now though, a full base install is well under a
>> handful of GB, or less than 1% of a
On 25 Feb 2018, at 2:54 (-0500), @lbutlr wrote:
I used to do the same back int eh 90s where trying to slim down the
OS was really worth the effort. Now though, a full base install is
well under a handful of GB, or less than 1% of a small hard drive.
There is also the independent issue of sec
On 25/02/18 01:18, Wietse Venema wrote:
> John Fawcett:
>> I was wondering if it might be wise to make m4 a mandatory prerequisite,
>> without which compilation would fail.?
> We could add this at the top of the script:
>
> m4
> but that would be a point solution. For a dependency list someone
On 25/02/18 08:54, @lbutlr wrote:
> On 2018-02-25 (00:37 MST), John Fawcett wrote:
>> I normally start out with the minimal set of packages and only add
>> software that I need to those. While make was already there, the
>> compiler and m4 were missing. I installed the compiler but forgot m4, so
>
On 25/02/18 09:07, Peter wrote:
> On 25/02/18 19:27, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>>> We could add this at the top of the script:
>>> m4 > Using "set -e" is much more effective and finds all errors.
> Please no. set -e is an attempt to
On 25/02/18 19:27, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>> We could add this at the top of the script:
>> m4
> Using "set -e" is much more effective and finds all errors.
Please no. set -e is an attempt to cover all error cases without
bailin
On 2018-02-25 (00:37 MST), John Fawcett wrote:
>
> On 25/02/18 01:18, Wietse Venema wrote:
>> John Fawcett:
>>>
>>> I was wondering if it might be wise to make m4 a mandatory prerequisite,
>>> without which compilation would fail.?
>> We could add this at the top of the script:
>>
>>m4
On 25/02/18 01:18, Wietse Venema wrote:
> John Fawcett:
>>
>> I was wondering if it might be wise to make m4 a mandatory prerequisite,
>> without which compilation would fail.?
> We could add this at the top of the script:
>
> m4
> but that would be a point solution. For a dependency list
On 25/02/18 03:09, @lbutlr wrote:
> On 2018-02-24 (09:44 MST), John Fawcett wrote:
>> due to the fact I had forgotten to install m4.
> Interesting. m4 is part of my base install. At least I think it is, it's not
> in /usr/local/... and i don't remember installing it.
>
In this case I didn't chose
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> We could add this at the top of the script:
> m4 I find it sad that systems have make but not m4. That tool has been
> around as part of the UNIX toolkit for over 30 years, on all the
> systems that I have played with.
| $ dpkg
On 2018-02-24 (09:44 MST), John Fawcett wrote:
>
> due to the fact I had forgotten to install m4.
Interesting. m4 is part of my base install. At least I think it is, it's not in
/usr/local/... and i don't remember installing it.
--
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
John Fawcett:
> Hi
>
> this is a strange error. I just had the chance to reinstall postfix from
> latest snapshot source on a new centos 7 server.
>
> When running postconf -n I was getting various errors relating to unused
> parameters from mysql map configuration files. This is an example of th
Hi
this is a strange error. I just had the chance to reinstall postfix from
latest snapshot source on a new centos 7 server.
When running postconf -n I was getting various errors relating to unused
parameters from mysql map configuration files. This is an example of the
message:
postconf: warnin
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