Hi!

I want to install a patch on postfix so that it can handle mail quotas (the patch is postfix-2.5.5-vda-ng.patch). The README file directs me to install that patch while i'm in postfix directory (expecting that I instaklled postfix by tarballs, i.e thru directory such as /usr/share/postfix-2.5.5/...). However I installed postfix by rpm and the directories for postyfix are /etc/postfic and /usr/libexec/postfix. As the patch searches for which file to replace, I don't which file should be affected by that patch, is is main.cf or whuch file.

I tried to run the patch while I'm on /etc/postfix/ and specified main.cf as the file to patch but it gave errors:


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[root@libismail postfix]# patch -p0 < postfix-2.5.5-vda-ng.patch
patching file postfix-2.5.5/README_FILES/VDA_README
can't find file to patch at input line 105
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -uNr postfix-2.5.5.orig/src/global/mail_params.h postfix-2.5.5/src/global/mail_params.h
|--- postfix-2.5.5.orig/src/global/mail_params.h 2008-07-27 21:10:27.000000000 +0200
|+++ postfix-2.5.5/src/global/mail_params.h 2008-08-25 11:57:48.813792568 +0200
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File to patch:
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when I specified main.cf as a file to patch it gave errors
File to patch: main.cf
patching file main.cf
Hunk #1 FAILED at 2171.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file main.cf.rej
can't find file to patch at input line 163
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -uNr postfix-2.5.5.orig/src/util/file_limit.c postfix-2.5.5/src/util/file_limit.c
|--- postfix-2.5.5.orig/src/util/file_limit.c 2003-10-22 20:48:36.000000000 +0200
|+++ postfix-2.5.5/src/util/file_limit.c 2008-08-25 11:57:48.813792568 +0200
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File to patch:
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Any help please?

Cheers,
Stefano

Get "postfix-2.5.5-1.fc8.src.rpm" and and extract the files to your RPM buildroot.
Get http://vda.sourceforge.net/VDA/postf...da-ng.patch.gz and gunzip into ~/redhat/SOURCES/
If you did it all by the book then postfix.spec resides in ~/redhat/SPECS/.
Open it with any text editor and where it reads "Patch10: postfix-2.4.5-open_define.patch" add a line below reading "Patch11: postfix-2.5.5-vda-ng.patch", and where it reads "%patch10 -p1 -b .open_define" add a line below "%patch11 -p1", save .spec file.
Now build as usual with 'rpmbuild -ba ~/redhat/SPECS/postfix.spec'.
Should patch and build w/o probs.