[Mimedefang] How I updated RedHat to Sendmail 8.12.8

[Tony Nugent]

On Tue Mar 04 2003 at 12:14, "Les Mikesell" wrote:

> > From: John Kirkland
> > 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
> 
> What did you do about the db4 requirement? I tried installing that on a 7.3 machine
> and it removed libdb.so.2 which some other things needed (kpackage and gnorpm, and
> probably others).

Ouch, that should have been avoided :)

1. it is possible to rebuild db4 on a rh7.3 box so that it lives
   beside db2 and db3 (a long messy story).

2. sendmail doesn't specifically require db4, it is quite happy to
   work with db3... so edit the sendmail-8.12.2-redhat.patch and
   change the reference to /usr/include/db4 to /usr/include/db3.

  [ In the .spec file I also exclude the movefiles.patch to put the
    aliases file back into /etc/mail/ where it belongs (and not
    /etc/).  (Other tweaks to the spec file are also needed). ]

>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com

Cheers
Tony