[nycbug-talk] Update to the FreeBSD mail/spamd filed as ports/105277

[Yarema]

--On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:19 PM +0800 LI Xin 
<delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

> Yarema wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:39 PM +0800 LI Xin
>> <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Dan Langille wrote:
>>>> On 7 Nov 2006 at 22:47, Yarema wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Inspired by Bob Beck's talk at the NYC BSD Con I implemented
>>>>> spamd and greyscanner on my FreeBSD pf edge servers.  What a
>>>>> difference!  Catches somewhere around 99% of the spam before
>>>>> it ever reaches the mail server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just filed <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105277>.
>>>>> Also available as a tarball at
>>>>> <http://yds.CoolRat.org/freebsd/spamd.tbz>.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know what you think.  If you like, let the maintainer
>>>>> know <delphij at FreeBSD.org>.
>>>>>
>>>>> The updated port is what I'm now running in production.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Have you considered upgrading spamd to the latest version
>>>> from OpenBSD?  I'd contacted the maintainer about this, and
>>>> have only recently started working with greylisting via pf
>>>> and spamd.  Are you interested in updating spamd itself?
>>>
>>> Yes that would be great.
>>>
>>> If nobody step up with the update I would do that myself this
>>> week, but I would be happy to see someone to take this over,
>>> as I no longer use it for my own use...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> I could try updating it since by now I'm pretty familiar with
>> the port.  How did you roll the 3.7 tarball?  By hand from an
>> OpenBSD release?
>
> First you need an OpenBSD cvs mirrored locally, or use the
> anonymous OpenBSD CVS.  I have rolled CVS information into the
> tarball, so this would be done with something like
> "cvs -d /home/openbsd up -rOPENBSD_4_0"
> in each directories.  Then, check if there is newly added files
> in OpenBSD distribution, port the patches into the tree, verify
> that everything goes well, remove the .#* files, and finally
> you got a new tarball.
>
> Please note that if you roll a new tarball, I would advise that
> you either include our local patchsets into it, or separate all
> our local patchset out to files/.  This will make maintainer's
> life easier.
>
> So I guess it's midnight in NY?  It's afternoon here so if you
> are tired, just leave the work to me :-)
>
> Cheers,

Yeah, it's 1:30am US/Eastern so I'm ready to pass out.  If you do roll 
another tarball consider including greyscanner and all that code dealing 
with fetching it can be eliminated from the Makefile.

-- 
Yarema
http://yds.CoolRat.org/