has Postfix new location of aliases.db?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:25:01 -0400
Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > As you can see, file /etc/mail/aliases was modified (target of
> > symlink) and then aliases.db was generated by `newaliases` command
> > as /etc/aliases.db
> >
> > Above is with postfix-2.5.6,1 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May
> > 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009    GENERIC  i386
> >
> > This is with new postfix-2.6.1,1:
> > # postconf -d | grep aliases
> > alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
> > alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
> 
> This was introduced with ports/134728, in which ALIAS_DB_MAP is
> compiled in as hash:/etc/mail/aliases.  I've rolled this back to the
> default value, which is system-dependent and chosen by
> ${WRKSRC}/src/util/sys_defs.h, which in turn relies on the
> ${WRKSRC}/makedefs script.
> 
> > newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases
> 
> This is intentional and a good thing.  In mail/postfix prior to
> 2.6.x, the change was made in main.cf instead of being compiled in as
> a default; this is why you do not see it when viewing the *default*
> postconf output in 2.5.x; try postconf newaliases_path (i.e. without
> the -d flag).
> 
> > And this is with older postfix-2.5.6,1:
> > # postconf -d | grep aliases
> > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> >
> > There is definitely incompatible change in defaults :o(
> 
> Indeed.  The attached patch (also filed as ports/135273) updates
> Postfix to 2.6.2 and makes the aforementioned changes. 

Committed.

> As a result, I don't think we need to touch ports/UPDATING.

Oh yes, it's needed and committed. People that upgraded to 2.6.1 will
run into the same problem again ;-)

It's always better to be verbose rather that sparse.
And it's even better not to violate POLA.


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