On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote:
> On 2022-01-08, Andreas Barth via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>> * Julian Bradfield via Exim-users (exim-users@???) [220108 15:18]:
>>> The pain of dealing with Debian's antiquated versions (4.92) and
>>> gratuitous messing around with upstream's configuration (most recent
>>> annoyance, not supporting built-in SPF) is prompting me to think about
>>> switching to using the primary source.
>>
>> Debian stable uses 4.94, as well as oldstable-backports.
>
> True. I hadn't thought of installing from backports. (My servers are
> on buster.) But I'm not sure whether there's anything in 4.94+ that I
> need now, it's just all the warnings I see about 4.92 being very obsolete.
>
>> If you could elaborate on your problems, perhaps there is an fix
>> available. Otherwise it's of course trivial to build your own debian
>> package, but I never felt the need to do so for exim.
>
> Specifically, I don't like the idea of installing an external tool
> spfquery and using the slightly clunky config snippet to use it,
> rather than using the built-in spf - I like things in the exim4 manual
> to work in my installation!
>
> However, I also don't like fiddling with systems more than necessary -
> sysadmin is not my job, it's just what I have to do to make things
> work. If I have to go the trouble of building my own Debian package, I
> might as well lose all the debian changes and just install exim from
> source, which is easy to repeat on all systems I might use.
>
> But there are things I know I might need to watch for: UIDs
> (Debian-exim vs exim), for example.
>
> So I suppose the question is: if I drop the master-source-built binary
> on top of the Debian one, what can I expect to break? (Tainting is the
> main thing I'm aware of as a risk.)
If you compile from source and drop the binary on top of the Debian one
it will miss. Debian calls it "exim4" and the upstream source calls it "exim".
Maybe you know this; if not it might be enough fun for one day.
> I guess I could just try it and see on a quiet day :)
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
andrew@???
