Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > postfix was already installed but there is no such a file > postfix.spec in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ (Please don't top post. It is much more difficult to follow.) What Blake was telling you to install is the postfix source rpm (srpm for short). This is not the same as the binary package that you have installed. The srpm is the source package for postfix. It includes the postfix tarball and the instructions (the postfix.spec file) needed to create the binary postfix rpm. You need to recompile postfix because mysql support is not built into the FC6 binary package and postfix does not support any sort of plugin architecture. (In rawhide -- what will become F9, mysql support is now included). You don't mention what documents you are trying to follow, so I can't tell you what things you may need to do at specific points in that documentation. I will try to briefly outline the steps you'll need to take to rebuild postfix with mysql support for FC6. First, I would strongly urge you not to follow any documentation of guides that tell you to install and build packages as root. That is simply wrong and anyone giving such advice is not doing you any favors. To get yourself setup to build the postfix packages, you will want to install a few packages first. Install the rpmdevtools and yum-utils packages (yum install rpmdevtools yum-utils). The rpmdevtools package contains a script named rpmdev-setuptree. Run that as a normal user and it will create ~/rpmbuild and setup the needed directories and configuration to enable you to build packages without needing to be root. Then download the postfix srpm. You should be able to use yumdownloader from the yum-utils package to do this. The command should be yumdownloader --source --noplugins postfix. (I don't have any FC-6 boxes at hand anymore, so I can't verify this there. If you have problems, download the postfix srpm directly from any mirror. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/SRPMS/postfix-2.4.5-2.fc6.src.rpm seems to be the latest available.) Verify the download with rpm -K postfix*.rpm. Next, install the build dependencies for postfix. There is a handy tool in yum-utils to do this. As root, run the following command: yum-builddep postfix*.src.rpm. This should install the packages needed to rebuild the postfix srpm. Since you will be adding mysql support, you will also need to install the mysql and mysql-devel packages. As a normal user, run rpm -ivh postfix*.src.rpm. This will install the source rpm within the ~/rpmbuild directory. The spec file you want should be in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS. Edit that file and at the very top, there is a line that reads %define MYSQL 0. Change the 0 to a 1 to enable mysql. You should also change the Release line (line 42). change the 2 to 3, to increment the release field. This will let yum and rpm know that the package you rebuild is newer than the one you already have installed. Now, rebuild the package with the command: rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/postfix.spec This should produce both the binary and source packages. The binary packages will be saved in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$(arch). So, for i386, the packages will be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386. That's the short answer. :) For more details, you may find the draft available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide useful. There is an even more comprehensive guide to rpm at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ Hopefully you'll be able to google and figure out any problems you have along the way. Good luck. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. -- Mark Twain
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