Re: [Exim] 4.24 rpm might loose /usr/sbin/sendmail

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] 4.24 rpm might loose /usr/sbin/sendmail
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:23:42AM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:38, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Looks like Nigel chose to include this in the 4.24 rpm, however when
> > Upgrading from 4.22 (without alternatives support) this left me
> > without a /usr/sbin/sendmail link.

[...]
> Ah - I think I see the problem....
> in %post:-
>         # make sure we have the appropriate link in
>         if [ ! -f /usr/sbin/exim ]
>         then
>             /usr/sbin/alternatives --auto mta
>         fi

>
> The ref to /usr/sbin/exim should have been /usr/sbin/sendmail


There is another bug: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz is dangling,
because /usr/sbin/alternatives tries to link it to a nonexisting
exim.1 manpage. This (untested) patch should fix it, it also finally
uses the Phil's exim4 manpage instead of the outdated external one.
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--- exim.spec.orig    Wed Oct  8 13:20:29 2003
+++ exim.spec    Wed Oct  8 13:41:08 2003
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %define docversion 4.20
 %define exiscanrev 12
 %define saversion 3.1
-%define releasenum 1
+%define releasenum 2


# Deduce the major release of Red Hat we are building on
%define redhatmajorver %(rpm -q --queryformat='%{VERSION}' redhat-release|cut -d. -f1)
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@
Source2: exim.init
Source3: exim.sysconfig
Source4: exim.logrotate
-Source5: exim.8
Source6: ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/FAQ-html.tar.bz2
Source7: ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-html-%{docversion}.tar.bz2
Source8: ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-postscript-%{docversion}.tar.bz2
@@ -371,7 +370,10 @@
install -d -m 0750 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/log/exim

 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8
-install %{SOURCE5} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8/exim.8
+pod2man --center=EXIM --section=8 \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin/eximstats \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8/eximstats.8
+install doc/exim.8 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man8/exim.8


 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/sysconfig
 install -m 644 %{SOURCE3} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/sysconfig/exim
@@ -407,10 +409,10 @@
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.exim 10 \
         --slave /usr/bin/mailq mta-mailq /usr/bin/mailq.exim \
         --slave /usr/bin/newaliases mta-newaliases /usr/bin/newaliases.exim \
-        --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mailq.1.gz mta-mailqman %{_mandir}/man1/exim.1.gz \
+        --slave %{_mandir}/man1/mailq.1.gz mta-mailqman %{_mandir}/man8/exim.8.gz \
        --initscript exim
 # make sure we have the appropriate link in
-if [ ! -f /usr/sbin/exim ]
+if [ ! -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ]
 then
     /usr/sbin/alternatives --auto mta
 fi
@@ -561,6 +563,11 @@
 %doc sa-exim*/{ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,INSTALL,LICENSE,TODO}


 %changelog
+* Wed Oct  8 2003 Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
+- fix generation of /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink with alternatives.
+- fix symlink for mailq(1)
+- use manpages shipped by upstream.
+
 * Fri May  2 2003 Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
 - Mods for RH9 build
 - Now scrubs db hint files (can cause db version mismatch problems)
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          thanks, cu andreas