Re: patching qmail.

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, November  1 at 09:25 AM, quoth Charles Cazabon:
> Khalid Maqsudi <kmaqsudi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have qmail up and running in my environment and recently discovered that I
> > need to apply a patch (qmail-big-ext-todo.patch).   I have installed qmail
> > using the steps in the Life with qmail docs.  How do I apply the patch to an
> > already compiled qmail?
>
> Stop the qmail services.  Apply the patch to your source tree and hope the
> patch isn't buggy.  Run `make; make setup check`.  Restart the qmail services.

And just in case things go south, keep a backup copy of your original 
source tree around (just make a tarball of it, before you apply the 
patch).

~Kyle
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