Bug 113370 - Postfix config file verification turned off in spec file
Summary: Postfix config file verification turned off in spec file
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: postfix
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Dennis
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-13 10:33 UTC by Jos Vos
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-14 21:34:24 UTC
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Description Jos Vos 2004-01-13 10:33:26 UTC
Description of problem:
The postfix spec file explicitly turns off verifying md5sums etc. of
the Postfix config files, which is bad practice IMHO, as it makes it
impossible to check with "rpm -V" if something has been changed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.0.11-4.

Comment 1 John Dennis 2004-01-14 21:34:24 UTC
I agree. Done. Actually did a bit of clean up on the whole %files
section trying to let the postfix installation script handle as much
of the ownership, permissions, etc. as possible.

Comment 2 Jos Vos 2004-01-14 22:32:11 UTC
Ownerships sounds a bit scary, as this would mean that the package
can't be build as a non-root user and/or the user postfix needs to
exist on the build machine.

Comment 3 John Dennis 2004-01-16 00:27:51 UTC
Yes, I realized the problem with that about 5 minutes after I updated
this bugzilla. I really wanted the spec file to key off of what was in
postfix-files as that is the true definition. So I wrote a script that
parses postfix-files and generates a %files list from it so there
would be a perfect match and it would be automated and not dependent
upon hand editing nor failure to notice if something changed upstream.


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