Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

[Pandu Poluan]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 01:05, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:47:45 schrieb Michael Mol:
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at>
>> wrote:
>>> > Am 06.02.2012 18:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
>>> >> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:06:41 schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
>>> >>> Hi,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> beware of installing postfix-2.9.0
>>> >>> When started it tries to access /usr/lib/postfix but files have been
>>> >>> installed into /usr/libexec/postfix
>>> >>
>>> >> postfix 2.9.0 works fine for me.
>>> >>
>>> >> But I also run cfg-update after the update and made sure to merge the ._
>>> >> file correctly.
>>> >
>>> > Yep, same here for postfix 2.9.0-r1 now.
>>> >
>>> > Had to kill the master-process manually ... this sorted things out in
>>> > the end ...
>>>
>>> So, to avoid this, when upgrading from < 2.9.0-r1 to 2.9.0-r1, one
>>> should stop postfix, do the upgrade, and then start postfix again?
>>> that's how I read it.
>>>
>>> Alternately, copy the old init script prior to upgrade, use that
>>> script to bring postfix down, and use the new script to bring postfix
>>> up?
>>
>> I just upgraded and did /etc/init.d/postfix restart and it worked.
>
> The installation path was changed without an ebuild version number
> bump, so if you installed before that change, it would have had the
> same path as the old version.
>

Soooo... I'm still on 2.8.7. Is it safe to upgrade to 2.9.0-r1 ?

Rgds,
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