[CentOS-devel] CR repo update problem

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 05:09:33AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Fred Smith
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 01:23:07PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Fred Smith
> >> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> >> > FYI, I ran all the (then current) updates from the CR repo this morning,
> >> > and found that it stepped on my sendmail.cf. (presumably the sendmail
> >> > rpm was the culprit.)
> >> >
> >> > I wouldn't think that was the desired beavhior, would you? I'd expect it
> >> > to drop either a rpm.old or rpm.new file instead.
> >> >
> >> > luckily, easy to fix once I figured out why incoming mail was busticated.
> >>
> >> If you look into the /etc/mail directory, don't you see
> >> sendmail.cf.bak? At least in my case, that file was created by
> >> sendmail* update.
> >>
> >> Akemi
> >
> > Yes, I do.
> >
> > Nevertheless, it seems kinda rude of it to break a working
> > configuration...
> >
> > But I'm no expert, what do I know? :)
> 
> Sounds like you edited sendmail.cf directly. That's not the standard

No, I have a .mc file and generate sendmail.cf.

but it's still a pain to have an important subsystem broken by an update
that drops a config file on top of the locally configured one.

> configuration file for local changes, those usually live in
> sendmail.mc and are processed with the m4 macro language. As I
> remember sendmail from.... oh, a very long time ago, you need to use
> the "sendmail.fc" or "frozen configuration" config file if you want to
> protect it from rebuilds based on sendmail.mc.

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