Drop or Fix sendmail-8.14.8

[Armin K]

The package configuring section is broken in some way. The instructions don't work for me.

# newaliases -v
Cannot rebuild aliases: no database format defined
Cannot create database for alias file /etc/mail/aliases
# cat /etc/mail/aliases
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root

root [ /home/armin/src/sendmail-8.14.8 ]# m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
m4: cannot open `m4/cf.m4': No such file or directory
m4: cannot open `sendmail.mc': No such file or directory
# find . -name m4
./cf/m4
# cd cf
# m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
m4: cannot open `sendmail.mc': No such file or directory
*** ERROR: No system type defined (use OSTYPE macro)

Unless I'm doing something wrong (and I'm not, I'm just copy/pasting the instructions), the package seems broken. It was tagged LFS7.4 built, so no one bothered to test it. Since its build system requires IQ over 9000 to understand, I won't bother to try to fix it. It took me some time to prevent it from installing manual pages in /usr/man.

There are better alternatives like exim and postfix, and unless someone wants to really fix it, I suggest that it should be dropped entirely.

[Igor Živković]

Fixed at r12772.

[bdubbs@…]

I'll handle this one.

[bdubbs@…]

I'm not sure why newaliases didn't work (it worked for me), but the m4 sequence should have been:

cd /etc/mail &&
m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf

My problem was that it didn't want to update the man page location without the symlink from /usr/man. I fixed that with a sed.

Fixed at revision 12806.