Postfix On Fedora Core4

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Aug 30 16:20:15 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:09 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 08:37 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > > 
> > > The most recent version RPM of pf is always on our FTP site:
> > > ftp://ftp.tqmcube.com
> > ----
> > of course installing that means that you are now out of tree on Postfix
> > and have taken the responsibility of updating it yourself.
> > 
> True. To put it in perspective,  the version that I "maintain" includes
> MySQL support which is not in the distributed RPM. 
> 
> Wietse/IBM are incredibly precise - if not remarkably anal - about
> Postfix. The benefits of having the most current version may outweigh
> concerns for the "tree."
----
I'm not arguing what you are doing - just suggesting to the unwitting
user that to rely upon your spin of Postfix means that yum ain't gonna
handle the updates and this person using your spins of Postfix now have
the responsibility for updates on their shoulders. 

Craig




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