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RPM 'n stuff
\ Rick Zeman (14 Jun 2007)
. \ Brian Collins (14 Jun 2007)
. . \ Rick Zeman (25 Jun 2007)
. . . \ Brian Collins (25 Jun 2007)
. . . . \ Rick Zeman (25 Jun 2007)
. . . . . \ Brian Collins (25 Jun 2007)
. . . . . \ Simon J Mudd (25 Jun 2007)
. . . \ mouss (25 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Re: RPM 'n stuff
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Simon J Mudd
Date:	25 Jun 2007

rzeman ("Rick Zeman") writes:

> On 6/25/07, Brian Collins <listbc> wrote:
> > > Naive question, but what if you have the src rpm and desire to not
> > > have some of the prebuilt options (in my case, I don't want mysql)?
> > > Of course when I run rpmbuild it errors out because I don't have mysql
> > > or any of its libraries.
> > >
> > > I know about the compile time options building postfix from source
> > > (I'd be done already if I was doing that), but am rather lost here.
> >
> > Good question. Simon makes it fairly easy to customize this.
> >
> > # cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> > # export POSTFIX_MYSQL=0
> > # export POSTFIX_MYSQL_REDHAT=0
> > # sh ./make-postfix.spec
> > # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC
> > # rpmbuild -bb postfix.spec
> > (or rpmbuild -ba postfix.spec)
> >
> > For more options/ideas:
> > http://postfix.wl0.org/en/building-rpms/
>
> Heh. Did I ever mention how much I like building from source?
> Reading Simon's page showed me the big caveat about SuSE (this is
> 10.2) and boy did I get some errors trying to build!

Personally I don't use SuSE so I don't know how to cater for the
differences between RedHat and SuSE. The same goes for some other
distributions too. It's also a shame (and I've repeatedly said this)
that we can't build a common postfix for more (linux) distributions
which is flexible enough for everyone.

I guess vested interests make this not a target to work towards. That
said however if you give me feedback on how to make my rpms work with
SuSE I'll certainly consider _trying_ to incorporate them.

Building from source is _easy_ but cleaning up the mess and
maintaining the system afterwards requires a lot of careful
attention. For one package that is not too much of a problem but the
moment you start to extend this to several packages and several
servers...

Sorry my rpms weren't suitable for you.

Simon