Re: Building Debian's source for Sendmail

[eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com (Eloy A. Paris)]

Hi,

joost witteveen (joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl) wrote:

: Are you sure the file is called "sendmail_8.8.5-1.tar.gz" instead
: of "sendmail_8.8.5.orig.tar.gz"? The latter is the name in the "new
: source format", that has been in use for about a year now. I'd be
: rather surprised to learn sendmail is still "old source format".

Yup, it's called "sendmail_8.8.5-1.tar.gz". I doubled checked at
ftp.debian.org in both stable and rex distributions:

debian:...ributions/debian/rex-updates/source> dir sendmail*
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608       13895 Jan 21 19:49 sendmail_8.8.5-1.diff.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608      996696 Jan 21 19:52 sendmail_8.8.5-1.tar.gz
debian:...ributions/debian/rex-updates/source> cd ../../stable/source/mail
debian:...distributions/debian/bo/source/mail> dir sendmail*
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608       13895 Jan 21 19:49 sendmail_8.8.5-1.diff.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608      996696 Jan 21 19:52 sendmail_8.8.5-1.tar.gz

I am also surprised to find sendmail in the old packaging format.

: Anyway, the "Debian" way to do it is to get the .orig.gz, the .diff.gz
: and the .dsc, and then type
: 
:   dpkg-source -x sendmail_8.8.5-1.dsc
: 
: and let dpkg-source do the unpacking and patching.

I know, I know but in this case there is no .dsc file at all.
The package it self is of good quality. I've been using it in my production
servers with no problems at all. It's just that is in the old format.

Any way, I just found out that the patch seems to be already applied to the
.tar.gz file. I am trying to build it right now...

Thanks,

E.-

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Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323


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