Re: [ITP] Sendmail 8.14.9

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

Hi Daniel,

On Apr  4 13:37, Daniel wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Daniel,
> >
> >On Feb 18 00:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Feb 17 23:51, Christian Franke wrote:
> >>>D. Boland wrote:
> >>>>Hi Corinna,
> >>>>
> >>>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>>Only two smaller problems:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>- The mailq and newaliases symlinks in /usr/bin must not be part
> >>>>>  of the package, otherwise they potentially overwrite an existing
> >>>>>  configuration.  They are created by sendmail-config anyway, if
> >>>>>  the user chooses to run the script.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>- Probably less important, but the other MTAs are installed into
> >>>>>  /usr/sbin, not into /usr/libexec.  Fedora installs the sendmail
> >>>>>  binary as /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail, analog to postfix, which
> >>>>>  is installed on Cygwin and Linux as /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix.
> >>>>>  But that's not that important, as long as there's no collision.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Other than that, I think the package is GTG.
> >>>>>
> >>>>Thanks for the sharp eye. I'll remove the links.
> >>>>
> >>>Another minor issue in the last line /etc/postinstall/sendmail.sh:
> >>>
> >>>chown SYSTEM:Administrators $UBINDIR/sendmail-config
> >>>
> >>>This does not work with all versions of Windows because the "Administrators"
> >>>(S-1-5-32-544) group name may be localized.
> >>Indeed.  That should use the gid 544 instead.
> >
> >I removed the just uploaded 32 bit sendmail package for now.
> >
> >For one thing, the 64 bit package is missing for some reason, the
> >other is that you didn't take the above into account.  The
> >Administrators account is only called Administrators on certain
> >language versions of Windows.  On other language versions, the
> >name "Administrators" is localized, for instance "Administratoren"
> >on german versions.
> >
> >Please fix this before re-uploading.
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Corinna
> >
> 
> I'm sorry, I didn't read the last post before uploading. I fixed it.

Cool.

> Should
> I wait uploading until I have the 64-bit version ready?

It would be nice if both versions would be available at the same time.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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