Re: How to upgrade sendmail ?

[fpage@ntrulez.oche.de (Frederick Page)]

Hi Ryszard,

you wrote on: 05 Feb 99 at 15:26 (received 05.02.99)
about       : _How to upgrade sendmail ?_

>Could anyone explain me, how to upgrade in Debian sendmail ? I'm using Debian
>2.0 and I would like to upgrade my sendmail to version 8.9. How can I do that
>having only sendmail's sources? I can't uninstall debianized version of
>sendmail because of dependency on "mail-transport-agent". How can I solve such
>a problems?

Get the sources, put them somewhere.

        cd /usr/src
        dpkg-source -x /(yourPath)/sendmail.8.9.dsc

This will patch the sources, extrakt them and put them into the right  
place. Then you

        cd sendmail8.9
        debian/rules binary

and (hopefully) get a *.DEB package in /usr/src. This custom-version (even  
if it's the same version number) can just be installed by

        cd ..
        dpkg -i sendmail8.9.deb

and will upgrade your existing sendmail.

Kind regards

Frederick