Milter-greylist

Would it be worth looking for an existing /etc/mail/greylist.conf file  
in the configuration run?
That way NEW installs would be 'a better practice'?

Bill

Bill Levering
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On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:29 PM, manu@... wrote:

> Kouhei Sutou <kou@...> wrote:
>
>> I uploaded the same patch to here:
>
> I'm a bit concerned with that:
> CONFFILE="\${SYSCONFDIR}/mail/greylist.conf"
> (...)
> -       ${INSTALL} -d -m 755 ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail
> -       ${TEST} -f ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/greylist.conf -o         \
> +       ${INSTALL} -d -m 755 ${DESTDIR}`dirname ${CONFFILE}`
>
> So we move from default installation into /etc/mail to
> ${SYSCONFDIR}/mail.
>
> While I agree it is better practice, I beleive this will break some
> setups at upgrade time: without specific configure options, the  
> patched
> milter-greylist is likely to look for its configuration file in
> /usr/local/etc/mail instead of /etc/mail, which is the current  
> behavior.
>
> True, milter-greylist should not use /etc/mail by default, but I'd
> rather not fix this kind of oddities if it is at the price of making
> upgrades more troublesome.
>
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
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> manu@...
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