From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EZXyJ-0002w7-Jo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:13:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA8ICF8I009371; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:12:15 GMT Received: from mail.caf.com.tr (mail.caf.com.tr [81.215.202.135]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA8I3ttj005409 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:03:55 GMT Received: from localhost (mail.caf.com.tr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.caf.com.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96611314F6 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:03:54 +0200 (EET) Received: from mail.caf.com.tr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.caf.com.tr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28150-08 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:03:45 +0200 (EET) Received: from mail.caf.com.tr (mail.caf.com.tr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.caf.com.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65267314E6 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:03:45 +0200 (EET) Received: from caf.com.tr (caf02.caf.local [10.0.0.3]) by mail.caf.com.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530793129F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:03:45 +0200 (EET) Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Out of portage Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <4FE82EE778704E4D9D31E9CE0BEC14650D2C6F@caf02.caf.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Out of portage Thread-Index: AcXkg1Ud4HCxMqkkT8eH1orlE6tGUwACQeWA From: "Eray Aslan" To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at caf.com.tr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jA8I3ttj005409 X-Archives-Salt: bf76b449-f9b7-47be-8d45-dc29d809d415 X-Archives-Hash: eda8f9cb44821060a54175508e534b41 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > If postfix becomes a dependency of another package in the > future it will > get updated by portage regardless of it being in the world-file. Possible but unlikely. It is a stable mail server. I doubt we will add or remove any software in the near future. > Abetter way would be to install it by hand in /usr/local which is > reserved for user-managed programs. But you _will_ have to keep an eye > on all the required libraries. If they get updated by portage it could > break your local install of postfix unless you compile it statically. Thank you for the info. > Another option would be to mask every version of postfix except of > yours in package.mask. If you have to modify the ebuild copy > it to your > portage overlay and install it from there. > > Anyway, why do you want to manage those programs yourself? > Because of this patch for postfix: http://sbserv.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/duchovni/multi_instance.gz It makes managing / upgrading postfix with multi instances easier. But it seems sticking with portage and managing the (infrequent) upgrades by hand for the second instance of postfix is less work than messing with ebuilds. Thanks again. Eray -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list