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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:05:38 schrieb Paul Hartman:
> 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.


there was something about libexec when I ran cfg-update:

/etc/postfix/main.cf:daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix

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