From: Aaron (mlproficuous.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 20:40:01 CST

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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:44:12PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote:
>
>> On Friday 01 February 2008, Aaron wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> So lets say i start w/the base install and change my rc.conf.local to
>>> point at sendmail.cf , edit the appropriate files in the src
>>> directory. Things like, sending mail as mydomain.com instead of
>>> myhost.mydomain.com, smart hosts, and whatever else needs to be
>>> changed. When i update or upgrade my system, am i going to need to
>>> manually go back every time and recreate the steps to get my mail
>>> system working again? Does the openbsd-proto.mc get overwritten
>>> every time i update the source via cvs. I just need this for
>>> sendmail now, but as a general question:
>>>
>
>
>
>> When doing an "update" there is usually no need to make any changes to
>> your /etc files.
>>
>> When doing an "upgrade" you will be instructed to manually make a few
>> version specific changes to /etc files but they are fairly trivial and
>> can always be found in the "Upgrade Guide" on the
>> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ page (for example the most recent upgrade
>> guide is here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html ). The manual
>> changes you will need to make are mostly due to changes in file
>> formats, API's and similar (such as improvements/modifications to
>> pf.conf syntax). These format changes are documented in the "Upgrade
>> Guide" so unless there is a change to the format of sendmail config
>> files, you probably won't need to touch your customized config files
>> (as stated, your originals are preserved during the upgrade).
>>
>>
>
> However, there have been threads here detailing the recompilation
> necessary for sendmail to handle SSL Auth (or whatever its called). If
> you have to recompile sendmail (as opposed to changing a config),
> presumably you'd have to make the same changes to the source and
> recompile whenever the source is changed by an update/upgrade. Is this
> correct?
>
> Doug.
>
>
Exactly the type of thing i'm talking about.

 Albeit i don't have to alter my /etc config files, the .mc files that
have to be edited lie in the /usr/src directory and these files are
edited to compile the new sendmail.cf files, so whenever I
update/upgrade (I know the difference, but ty for being clear in case i
didn't) do edited files within src get overwritten or ......????

Along the same lines.... Lets say i'm following -stable.. a fix comes
out, i do an update but the fix had nothing to do with sendmail. Does
cvs do anything to the sendmail files, and how do i see what stuff was
actually altered? {find -ctime ? } ??

Thanks again,

Aaron Martinez

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