Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 123348
make sendmail.cf silently fails without sendmail-cf RPM
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:01 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: If the sendmail-cf package is not installed, then running "make" or "make sendmail.cf" from the /etc/mail directory silently fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.12.11-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install sendmail package. 2. Remove sendmail-cf package. 3. rm /etc/mail/sendmail.cf 4. make -C /etc/mail Actual Results: No output. Expected Results: Error message saying that sendmail.cf cannot be created without the sendmail-cf package. Additional info:
This would be nice. I frequently see students in training classes have problems with using sendmail.mc because they forget to verify whether or not sendmail-cf is installed.
This will be fixed in the next release and in rawhide.
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-299.html