Bug 327651

The problem with this is that newaliases processes all file(s) specified with
alias_database in main.cf. Therefore checking for /etc/aliases is not sufficient.

Closing as CANTFIX.

Re-opening for one final gasp with a slightly more complex idea...

I often keep some Makefiles in /etc/postfix that intelligently postconf and then
postmap only when needed. This logic could be easily extended to the initscript
for speedier bootup.

At the cost of slight complexity and a dependency on make.

Any one else agree this is worthwhile?

How many makefiles are you using for this?

Actually, my extra makefiles are for local policy postmaps and other ancillary
stuff. So for only the newaliases logic, we'd need this one minimalist
/etc/postfix/GNUmakefile:

.SUFFIXES:
.PHONY: all
alias_database := $(shell postconf -h alias_database)
adbs := $(patsubst hash:%,%.db, $(alias_database:,=))
all: $(adbs)
$(adbs): %.db: %
	postalias $<

Of course this can be expanded upon too.

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Still able to save small but significant bootup time using above /etc/postfix/GNUmakefile and this simple example patch to initscript.

--- /etc/init.d/postfix.orig        2008-09-17 05:25:03.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/init.d/postfix     2008-12-07 11:20:33.000000000 -0800
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@
        conf_check
        # Start daemons.
        echo -n $"Starting postfix: "
-        /usr/bin/newaliases >/dev/null 2>&1
+       if [ -r /etc/postfix/GNUmakefile -a -x /usr/bin/make ]
+       then    /usr/bin/make -s -C /etc/postfix 2>/dev/null
+       else    /usr/bin/newaliases >/dev/null 2>&1
+       fi
        /usr/sbin/postfix start 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure $"$prog start"
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/postfix

Dependency on make can be avoided by using test -nt or similar commands instead of a makefile.

But the file won't be rebuilt when alternatives' mta is switched to postfix from another mta. Any suggestions how to avoid that?

postfix-2.5.6-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update postfix'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-0892

postfix-2.5.6-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update postfix'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-0926

postfix-2.5.6-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

postfix-2.5.6-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.