From: Perry E. Metzger (perrypiermont.com)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 09:32:36 CST

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Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com writes:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>> NetBSD's build machinery completely ignores the supplied makefiles and
>> does a reachover build of everything using BSD Makefiles, as is
>> customary throughout NetBSD. We don't use postfix-install or any of
>> the rest of the machinery.
>>
>
> This is fine, so long as:
>
> 1. You know what you are doing, and do it right.

Indeed. Which is precisely why I need to understand proto/ better. :)

> 2. You arrange for post-install upgrade-package to run on the users
> machine if they are upgrading from a previous Postfix release. This is
> of course moot if all installs are fresh installs and /etc/postfix
> always starts out empty.

We do, but remember, we have to arrange for upgrade of the entire
operating system, including config files for dozens of things, so
upgrading postfix is a small subset of that problem from our point of
view. :)

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