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 parameter that specifies the
location of Postfix configuration files. In order to build Postfix with
a configuration directory other than /etc/postfix, use:
$ make makefiles CCARGS='-DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/some/where\"'
$ make
and set the available params to be in my /usr/local/ tree, in export
CCARGS=
-DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/usr/local/etc/postfix\" \
-DDEF_DATA_DIR=\"/var/lib/postfix\" \
-DDEF_QUEUE_DIR=\"/var/spool/postfix\" \
-DDEF_SENDMAIL_PATH=\"/usr/local/sbin/sendmail\" \
-DDEF_NEWALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/bin/newaliases\" \
-DDEF_MAILQ_PATH=\"/usr/local/bin/mailq\" \
-DDEF_COMMAND_DIR=\"/usr/local/sbin\" \
-DDEF_DAEMON_DIR=\"/usr/local/libexec/postfix\" \
-DDEF_MANPAGE_DIR=\"/usr/local/man\" \
-DDEF_README_DIR=\"/usr/local/share/doc/packages/postfix-doc/README_FILES\"
\
-DDEF_HTML_DIR=\"/usr/local/share/doc/packages/postfix-doc/html\"
\
The config & build works OK.
Since I'm installing this for the first time:
"The non-interactive version ("make upgrade") needs the
/etc/postfix/main.cf file from a previous installation. If the file does
not exist, use interactive installation ("make install") instead."
I do the
make install
step. The 1st question it asks is "install_root=/" ?, then other paths.
I guess I'm misunderstanding this process. What's the purpose of
telling all the compile-time defaults if I have to re-enter everything
when I install?
Since I can't run the non-interactive version, how can I "automate" the
install process so that it puts stuff where I told it to @ compile time?
Thanks!
