[csw-maintainers] CSW packaged MTAs and /usr (continued from "CSWcswclassutils: it wants to write in /usr")

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> With an updated postfix package I would like to make the package as
> simple as possible and leave control to the user. Therefor I would like
> to emit a notification message on package installation, either pointing
> the user to a README.CSW, a script, an additional integration package,
> or simply to echo commands that one can issue to integrate postfix with
> the system.

a script would be best, IMO.


> patches. What would happen if we left the system sendmail packages in
> place and simply moved away the binaries? Wouldn't a sendmail patch
> notice the installed sendmail package and overwrite our link with
> possibly patched binaries?


actually it would probably complain that the target binaries it was
replacing, dont match, and then refuse to patch. but depending on the
particular patch, it might.


> Granted, pkgrm wouldn't make it easy for a
> user to revert back to system sendmail .. just trying to get a feeling
> for the different approaches.

offering pkgrm as an option, sounds like a good thing.


Also though, particularly for the "no pkgrm" option.. make sure to
provide an UNinstall script, to match up with the (/usr) install
script please.