Re: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:03:13PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
In earlier releases, /etc/make.conf had various NO_ knobs such as
NO_SENDMAIL or NO_IPFILTER to avoid building specific parts of the system
during buildworld. In FreeBSD 7 they seem to be gone? At least they are not
listed in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, or make.conf(5). I'm
specifically curious about NO_SENDMAIL. With earlier FreeBSD versions I
added this to make.conf after installing Postfix, thinking that this way
installworld won't overwrite my Postfix port. Is this no longer necessary?

Regarding NO_SENDMAIL and NO_IPFILER:

Both of these appear to have been renamed: WITHOUT_SENDMAIL and
WITHOUT_IPFILTER. You can poke around at things in
src/tools/build/options/ and see what's what.

However, I'm not sure how these play a role with world right now. I'm
not entirely familiar with how (if at all) src/tools/build/options/
actually controls buildworld/isntallworld features. Someone else will
have to comment on that.

Regarding concerns over mailer selection:

Which mailer gets used for commands like sendmail(8), newaliases(1),
mailq(8) and others is enitrely based on /etc/mail/mailer.conf. The
actual binaries on FreeBSD of /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/newaliases,
etc. are all wrappers that read /etc/mail/mailer.conf to determine what
program to actually execute.

So it's "generally safe" to have both sendmail (the MTA/MDA) from the
base system installed at the same time as postfix.

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