[Mimedefang] How I updated RedHat to Sendmail 8.12.8

[John Kirkland]

All,

Here's how I upgraded to the newest sendmail on my redhat 7.2 box.

1.  get the sendmail source rpm for RH8.0 (sendmail-8.12.8-1.80.src.rpm).
I got it from the redhat ftp site.
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/8.0/en/os/SRPMS/sendmail-8.12.8-1.80.src.rpm

2.  build the binary RPMS from the source. rpm --rebuild sendmail-8.12.8-1.80.src.rpm

3.  install the binary RPMS. rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/sendmail-8.12.8*.rpm

4.  download newest mimedefang, untar it, make it, make install it...

done...

Note:  I already had mimedefang running on this box with an older version
of sendmail... I tried the above procedure for the update of sendmail, and
it appears to work.

Regards,
John

> Message: 11
> From: "Eric Wood" <eric at interplas.com>
> To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] SECURITY: Update to Sendmail 8.12.8 ASAP
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:48:44 -0500
> Reply-To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
>
> But I thought mimedefang strongly advised not to run on anything less than
> 8.12.7 sendmail because of bugs in the milter code - thereby having
> potential filter problems.  Do you know if RH's latest rpm is as good as
> 8.12.8 - meaning RH has also backported 8.12.7's milter fixes to 8.11.6.
>
> I doubt it.
> -eric wood
>
> From: "Ashley M. Kirchner":
> >     This does NOT mean that they're running an old version, they just
> > can't maintain the same version numbers due to other dependencies, so
> > they backport fixes to their own released versions.  Having said that,
> > if you can upgrade your 8.11.5 to 8.11.6.23.73, you should be fine.