update to SASL breaks sendmail

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Jan 6 01:34:23 UTC 2013


In the last episode (Jan 05), Robert Huff said:
>         I have followed the canonical procedure to get Sendmail to use
> SASL.
> 	Yesterday this worked.
> 	This morning I updated cyrus-sasl to the latest version, which
> bumps the library version from ".2" to ",3".  This appears to break
> sendmail in at least two places.
>
> 	 I have added a mapping in libmap.conf ... which seems to work
> ... but I'm pretty sure that's Not The Right Thing.
>     What is?

Rebuild sendmail so that it links against the updated sasl libraries, or
make sure to preserve old shared libraries when upgrading packages.  This
isn't sendmail or sasl-specific; it's standard procedure when you upgrade
any port that installs shlibs that other ports depend on.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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