[CentOS-devel] CR repo update problem

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 07/28/2015 04:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:


>> Sounds like you edited sendmail.cf directly. That's not the standard
>> 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.

> I agree that is likely what happened, if the sendmail.mc file does not
> match the sendmail.cf file, it backs up the cf file and creates a new
> one from the cm file.
>
> That is the standard behavior, and this is not the first version where
> that happens:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196342
>
> I personally don't like this method, but it is what postfix updates do,
> and it is by design in RHEL.

Ah, yes, that explains the observed behavior. Thanks for the BZ link.

As to why edit the .cf file... not my choice. It is supplied by the IT
guys at my work place (no .mc file provided). I _could_ use postfix
but then I get no support re: mail.

Akemi