On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, David F. Skoll wrote:
Package: sendmail
Version: 8.13.4-3
Severity: important
If the clock on the computer is reset because of battery loss or some
other reason so that the m4 files have a date far in the future, bootup
hangs as the Sendmail startup script creates, recreates, re-recreates, ...
the Makefile. I guess the problem is that some magic config script checks
the return code from "make" and decides to re-make the Makefile.
Thanks, I should be able to reproduce that on my laptop...
I've recently heard there was some typo in that level's Makefile.
<rant>
The Debian packaging of Sendmail is a huge flaming mess. I've never
seen such a convoluted, spaghetti-like, insane set of scripts and Makefiles
for doing something that all other distros do extremely simply, with
one simple Makefile. IMO, the entire package should be thrown away
and redone from scratch. We may be forced to do this ourselves so
we can credibly support our Debian customers.
</rant>
And which of the other distros (with simple makefiles) support
* changing of databases or other .mc settings based upon the connection
profile (dhcp domain, ppp connection, etc.)
* allow you to run split receive/deliver daemons trivially (wanted by
some to take virus/spam detection from the receiving process, I prefer
MimeDefang myself, but provided it anyway).
* come with trivial to manage queue aging
* ...
Yes the whole thing is convoluted, but its there because some ISP,
power user, or general user asked for it - and... it generally just
does the right thing.
And things are being redone from scratch for smX.
In the meantime, you are free to bypass the spaghetti -
but then nothing is done, not even on upgrades:
Change this in /etc/mail/sendmail.conf: HANDS_OFF="Yes";
I'm open to suggestions - and package changes for unstable, sarge
can only take bug fixes.
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Rick Nelson
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-- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center
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