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

[Yarema]

--On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:21 AM -0500 Yarema <yds at CoolRat.org> 
wrote:

>
>
> --On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:40 PM +0800 LI Xin
> <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
>
>> Yarema wrote:
>>> --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.
>>
>> Yes.  I have prepared a tarball at
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/misc/spamd.tar.bz2 and you
>> may want to try it out, to see if the upgrade has all features
>> you wanted.  I have uploaded the necessary distfile to my home
>> directory but it can take some time to be populated out to
>> mirror sites.
>>
>> I will walk through the open PRs to see if I have missed
>> something.
>
> OK, I did a few test builds.  I see that you opted to apply
> the FreeBSD patches directly to the tarball.  There's one
> problem I found with that.  In spamd-setup.c line 51
> ${LOCALBASE}, or ${PREFIX} if you will, gets hard coded:
>
># define PATH_SPAMD_CONF		"/usr/local/etc/spamd.conf"
>
> Same thing probably happens with the man pages.  Come to
> think of it I think it would be simpler to maintain the
> port with the local FreeBSD patches applied by the port at
> build time like before rather than rolling the tarball with
> the patches already applied.  Who knows.. maybe the OpenBSD
> folks will someday package spamd as a tarball themselves.
> It would be good to have those patches still araound in the
> files dir if/when that happens.
>
> Otherwise looks good.  Thanks again for looking into this so
> quickly.

Following up on my own email...  Just updated the 4.0 version of 
<http://yds.CoolRat.org/freebsd/spamd.tbz> adding files/crontab.in to be 
installed as ${EXAMPLESDIR}/crontab.  And some minor cosmetic fixes to the 
Makefile.

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