Sendmail-8.12 RPM for RH7.x

[Mike Kercher]

Here are the steps I took:

Download the .src.rpm
ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/SRPMS/SRPMS/sendmail-8.12.10-1
.1.src.rpm

Then install the source
rpm -ivh sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.src.rpm

Now you have to modify the spec file

cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
vi sendmail.spec

The 5th line down is what we want to change:

%define initdir /etc/rc.d/init.d
# If you want to build this on older Red Hat Linux releases, this defines
# the version number to build on. Supported should be 62 70 71 72 for
# Red Hat Linux 6.2 up to 7.2 and "100" for the current rawhide version.
%define errata 100


Change the line that says %define errata 100 to %define errata 72

Save your changes and then run:

rpm -ba --clean --rmsource sendmail.spec

This will create you a whole new set of RPM's to install...including
sendmail-cf.

Backup your /etc/mail directory before installing...just in case :)  You may
also run into a dependency on db3-devel which will need to be installed
before the rpm's will rebuild.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Jeff Lee
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:11 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Sendmail-8.12 RPM for RH7.x


Dear Mike Kercher:

Yes, please. It will be very helpful and useful.

Many thanks,

        -jeff

In your email, dated Sun Sep 28 03:15:22 2003, you wrote:

>
> If anyone wants to upgrade their sendmail installation via RPM to 
> 8.12.10 on an older RH installation, I have finally figured it out.  
> My servers are running RHAS and RHES which are based on the 7.x 
> distribution and I kept running into RPM dependencies all along the 
> way...even trying to rebuild the .src.rpm
>
> If you are interested, let me know and I'll post the solution.
>
> Mike
>


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