Re: pkg upgrade vs building from source

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 1:37 PM Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
wrote:

> On 2022-10-08 8:35, paul beard wrote:
> > My skepticism over pkg doing what I expect grows after recent events. I
> > decided after I rebuilt this freebsd instance that I would say goodbye
> > to installing from source and allow pkg to manage it all. Surely by now,
> > it's mature enough to handle it.
> >
> > Reader, it is not.
> >
> > I allowed it to upgrade postfix the other day and discovered that it no
> > longer worked;
> > Oct  8 03:15:16 <mail.warn> www postfix/smtp[65148]: warning:
> > unsupported SASL client implementation: cyrus
> > Oct  8 03:15:16 <mail.crit> www postfix/smtp[65148]: fatal: SASL library
> > initialization
> > Oct  8 03:15:17 <mail.warn> www postfix/master[1157]: warning: process
> > /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 65148 exit status 1
> > Oct  8 03:15:17 <mail.warn> www postfix/master[1157]: warning:
> > /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
> >
> > I went to the port directory and did a deinstall/reinstall and all is
> > well. Postfix flush cleared out the test emails I had queued up and no
> > errors in maillog. No changes to teh configuration files, it just worked
> > properly after a proper install.
>
> When you installed postfix via pkg, did you install postfix, or
> postfix-sasl?  The postfix port is flavoured:
>
> $ pkg search -r FreeBSD -x 'postfix(-.+)?-3.7.2'
> postfix-3.7.2_1,1              Secure alternative to widely-used Sendmail
> postfix-ldap-3.7.2_1,1         Secure alternative to widely-used
> Sendmail (with OpenLDAP and Cyrus SASL support)
> postfix-sasl-3.7.2_1,1         Secure alternative to widely-used
> Sendmail (with Cyrus SASL support)
>

> pkg query %o-%v postfix
mail/postfix-3.7.2_1,1
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