The plan sounds, sound... but I would worry about putting a yum update for this anywhere near a cronjob. There have been enough as far as issues I've seen when dealing with normal system updating via automated yum, let alone mail. If nothing else, I would think it a good idea not to make that default.
Justice On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:17 -0800, Erik A. Espinoza wrote: > The QmailToaster will not be merged into some other repo. I will be > creating a repo for the QmailToaster only. > > This is because automatic updates for things in rpmforge are okay, but > require a little special care on the QmailToaster. > > For example if you update spamassassin while the server is live, > spamassassin will no longer be able to find the supplemental files > needed and crash. A newer clamdscan trying to access an older clamd > may crash. > > Because of this there will be a qmailtoaster repo and an update > script, to be run via cron or manually, that does the following: > > 1) Shut down qmail > 2) Run yum --enablerepo=qmailtoaster update, as our repo file will > always be enabled=0 > 3) Qmail cdb > 4) Start Qmail > > Also, all config files are going to be broken out into a separate rpm > just for config files called config-toaster. This will never be > updated, to ensure that your configs persist after every update. > > Hope this helps clarify things a bit. > > Thanks, > Erik > > On Nov 30, 2007 9:52 AM, Joseph Lundgren > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It's actually much easier than that. RPMForge is set up to handle "2nd > > party" RPMs. http://rpmforge.net/user/faq/ > > > > > > > > > > > > From the CentOS wiki ( http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge ): > > > > > > > > RPMForge is a collaboration of Dag, Dries, and other packagers. They provide > > over 2600 packages for CentOS, including mplayer, xmms-mp3, and other > > popular media tools. It is not part of RedHat or CentOS but is designed to > > work with these major distributions. > > > > > > > > > > > > I haven't personally experienced the process of submitting RPMs for > > inclusion to the RPMForge, but I imagine it's quite reasonable. > > > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Joseph Lundgren > > > > Systems Engineer > > > > Peak Internet, LLC > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > From: Warren Melnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:38 AM > > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail is officially public domain > > > > > > > > > > > > Getting into CentOS would mean either having it in the extras repo (fine > > with me) or convincing RedHat to include it in RHEL, which would first mean > > getting it into Fedora and making sure it is stable. > > > > W > > > > > > On Nov 30, 2007 11:42 AM, A M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 2007/11/30, Johannes Weberhofer, Weberhofer GmbH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html > > > > http://www.ornl.gov/lists/mailing-lists/qmail/2007/11/msg00069.html > > > > > > > > I think, that's good news for the further development of qmail! Shouldn't > > it now be possible to publish binary distributions of the toaster packages!? > > > > Johannes > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > |--------------------------------- > > | weberhofer GmbH | Johannes Weberhofer > > | information technologies > > | Austria, 1080 Wien, Blindengasse 52/3 > > |----------------------------------------------------------->> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > This is indeed good news for us. Even though I believe DJB should have done > > this a few years ago... > > Now all we (all qmail users/admins) have to do is to convince distributors > > to supply a qmail package in their distros... that would be nice... a qmt > > package in fedora/suse/mandriva/centos would be a nice treat... Am I > > dreaming? > > > > But first all the patches and necessary changes to it must be stable and > > hussle free... > > > > I think we'll have to way and see... but anyway, it's great news... :) > > > > -- > > AM > > agmsoft(at)gmail.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
