[TriLUG] red hat sendmail rpms with tls support?

[Dan Monjar]

Does using the src rpm enable let you keep the RH rpm database consistent? 
That's the only reason I can come up with for not using the source tarball.

--On Thursday, January 09, 2003 09:54:30 AM -0500 Rodent of Unusual Size 
<Ken.Coar at Golux.Com> wrote:

> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I would like Ken to explain what he means by this.
>
> wrt apache, rh completely ignored/modified/whacked the apachectl
> script, giving it a different name, arguments, and location.
> other things, too, but that's the most serious in terms of support.
> fortunately, mark cox tells me they stopped doing this for 8.0
> (maybe 7.3), but since i run neither 8.0 nor the apache rpm i
> haven't verified.
>
> this also appears to apply to rh's sendmail rpm.  i don't have the
> details right in front of me, but the 'to enable tls' how-tos
> say 'add the following to the build.m4 script.'  after spending
> hours poring over the rh sendmail patches in the source rpm, and
> trying a few obvious things that didn't do diddly, i managed to
> get the -DSTARTTLS on the cc command -- and then it varfed mightily.
> the issue here is that, post rh patches, the 'build.m4' file was
> nowhere to be seen.  apparently everything it does in the sendmail
> dist has been yanked out into separate rh-specific scripts.
>
> latest news: sendmail 8.12 rpm needs db-4.  db-4 needs jdkgcj.
> jdkgcj needs gcjlib.  gcjlib needs gcc-java.  now why the flying
> moose ears does a db package need java libraries???
>
> bah..
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>
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Daniel Monjar
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bioMérieux, Inc.
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