sendmail update

[Tony Shadwick]

Just going and taking a cursory glance at the sendmail makefile in ports:

.if exists(${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/mailer.conf) && ${PREFIX} == "/usr"
pre-everything::
         @${ECHO_CMD} "#"
         @${ECHO_CMD} "# You can't override the base sendmail this way."
         @${ECHO_CMD} "# your version FreeBSD use mailwrapper."
         @${ECHO_CMD} "#"
         @${ECHO_CMD} "# Please install with normal PREFIX"
         @${ECHO_CMD} "# and activate the port version with"
         @${ECHO_CMD} "# cd ${PORTSDIR}/mail/sendmail && make mailer.conf"
         @${ECHO_CMD} "#"
         @${FALSE}
.endif

So my understanding, make WITH_WHATEVER_FLAGS_YOU_WANT=yes, && make 
mailer.conf && make install.

That will override the system base.

Anyone else care to chime in here?

Tony

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote:

>
>> Take a peek at /usr/ports/mail/Sendmail/Makefile.  There are tons of flags
>> to be thrown, and I'm willing to bet that you can make a couple of tweaks
>> there to get the result you wish.
>>
>> If it's just throwing it on the command line, you might want to consider
>> putting the flags in /etc/make.conf.
>
> But then, how that port/sendmail will interact with the system
> sendmail. When re-installing the system, will I have to install the
> port again?
>
> Olivier
>