To: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 03/22/2007 13:36:23
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:51:34 -0400
"George Georgalis" <george@galis.org> wrote:
>
> >I believe that that conflicts with builds using pkg_comp -- at least,
> >I had trouble because of that.
>
> haven't used pkg_comp, is the error because there is no mailer in
> the chroot? what do you think should be done?
>
I don't know why... Here are a few messages from December about it;
that's all I know:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>
Cc: pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: 'postdrop' problem when using pkg_comp
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:27:49 -0500
Sender: pkgsrc-users-owner@NetBSD.org
Organization: Columbia University
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:28:41 +0100
Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Steven M. Bellovin --> pkgsrc-users (2006-12-27 09:09:49 -0500):
> > On several of my machines, I did a massive package rebuild using
> > pkg_comp. It worked fine on most of them, but on one I got many
> > messages like this:
> >
> > postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file
> > maildrop/991808.8467: No such file or directory
> >
> > I assume it had to do with invoking postfix in a chrooted
> > environment. However, I've never seen this before, and it didn't
> > happen on the other machines. Any theories? (Most of the machines
> > in question run -current, including the failing one and some of the
> > successful ones; one is on 3.0.1.)
>
> Is PKGSRC_MESSAGE_RECIPIENTS set in the chroot's mk.conf? If yes, try
> unsetting it.
>
Good catch; that was it.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb