Bug 85520
| Summary: | Upgrade to sendmail-8.12.8-1.80 fails miserably | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Thomas Bolioli <terraformer> |
| Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Florian La Roche <laroche> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | Keywords: | Security |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-11 15:57:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is due to up2date not doing any update if config files are changed, right? That is a precaution for updates that can not be done unattended and you can either change the up2date configuration or select installing this update. greetings, Florian La Roche |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 Description of problem: when upgrading to sendmail-8.12.8-1.80 (today's bug fix release) from sendmail-8.12.5-7 (latest production release) fails due to even a minimally changed config. Without harping on the fact that a bug fix release should not have any other significant changes in it, this is expected behavior for an upgrade of this type where the alias db format has changed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date --update on any fully current patched RH 8 machine that has sendmail installed and where configuration changes (from default) and aliases exist. 2. See error 3. Actual Results: sendmail base package is skipped due to config changes. Expected Results: It should upgrade. Additional info: The work around is: 0) run "service sendmail stop" 1) make backups of /etc/mail and /etc/aliases 2) uninstall sendmail via rpm -e --nodeps sendmail-8.12.5-7 (ignore error) to get around dependency checking. 3) Download sendmail-8.12.8-1.80.i386.rpm from Red Hat's channel for v8 and install it via rpm -i sendmail-8.12.8-1.80.i386.rpm 4) delete /etc/aliases.db 5) mv /etc/mail and /etc/aliases to /etc/mail.rpmnew and /etc/aliases.rpmnew 6) restore your copies of /etc/mail and /etc/aliases 7) run newaliases to create a new /etc/aliases.db 8) run "service sendmail start": if errors check diffs of old and new config files from within /etc/mail and /etc/mail.rpmnew