FreeBSD-Update + Sendmail

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 6 13:50:10 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 09:45:50AM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote:
> I have been updating my FreeBSD systems for many years by updating and 
> building from source.  For the FreeBSD 9.2 cycle, I decided to use 
> freebsd-update for binary update instead.  I use Sendmail + Cyrus-SASL and 
> the freebsd-update process only installed a 'bare bones' binary.  How do I 
> compile just Sendmail from source so that it uses my /etc/make.conf for the 
> smtp_auth components?  Is there a freebsd-update.conf flag to perform this 
> task?
> 

No.  When you use freebsd-update(8), you get the binary bits that are
available on the release images.  There is no way to have
freebsd-update(8) know of local changes/patches/etc.

Glen

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