Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 110047
sendmail-devel and sendmail-doc not provided
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: packages sendmail-devel and sendmail-doc not provided on ISO CD and Channel. We can create this packages (and sendmail-debuginfo) with the sendmail.spec Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.12.10-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
I am closing this bug report here, as this must be decided at a different place within Red Hat. Thanks a lot for your feedback. greetings, Florian La Roche
Huh? sendmail-devel is required in order to build any Milters. Why bother compiling sendmail with -DMILTER if you can't use it? For other missing packages see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Red+Hat+Enterprise+Linux&version=3&component=distribution The most annoying to us is perl-suidperl.
Leaving out packages that are generated by your own SRPMS seems to be an interesting definition of "Enterprise-level computing". So I had to rebuild the sendmail SRPM to get milter support for my anti-virus milter. What's going to happen when you up2date sendmail? Or any other package that I had to rebuild to supply a missing RPM? Am I going to have to remember which packages I had to handle specially to keep up2date from only performing a partial package install? Or is up2date going to refuse to perform that update because of dependency problems? Or are we going to have to wait until it happens before someone at RedHat is even interested in thinking about such things? Sorry if I sound jaded, but I still have a few servers running 7.3 that are being screwed by bugzilla bug #103177, and I can't recommend upgrading them to RHEL3 until the "no sendmail milter" problem is resolved.
I just got burned by this problem, too. I opened this as Service Request # 322160 on your RHEL Technical Support Page. I consider this a real problem for RHEL3 based mail servers and I'm very unhappy with this "lets leave this package out of Enterprise computing, because it isn't needed for Oracle" decision. Please reopen this as a bug.
sendmail-devel and several other -devel packages will be reintroduced in the next quarterly update of RHEL 3. You can download the beta versions from the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for x86) Beta" in Red Hat Network.