Bug 467841

Summary:	Missing dependency of sendmail upon make
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ted Rule <ejtr>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ted Rule 2008-10-21 08:39:12 UTC

Description of problem:

If a base system is installed including sendmail, then changes to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc are not reflected in sendmail.cf upon restart of the sendmail service unless the make package is also installed. I feels this breaks a principle of "least surprise".

The init script tests for make's existence and avoids updating
sendmail.cf if it doesn't exist.

It is arguable that is more logical to make the sendmail-cf package depend upon
"make" as one is only ever likely to install this package if one wants to update sendmail.cf via sendmail.mc, but to my mind the package which owns /etc/mail/Makefile should have a dependency upon "make".


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Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-12-03 18:41:09 UTC

In sendmail-8.14.3-2.fc11 the Makefile is rewritten in shell script. Also the init script will print a warning if sendmail-cf package is required.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-12-03 18:55:02 UTC

sendmail-8.14.3-2.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sendmail-8.14.3-2.fc10

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-12-19 13:40:05 UTC

sendmail-8.14.3-3.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sendmail-8.14.3-3.fc10

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-01-07 21:53:31 UTC

sendmail-8.14.3-3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.