Re: New way of doing master.cf to be more upgrade and packaging friendly

Nathan Grennan:
> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:42, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > All this can be automated with a master.cf editing program.
>
> Yes, but in the case of rpm packaging using pre and post scripts to call a
> configuration editing command is still less clean than just spliting the
> configuration file into a directory of files.

Third-party apps are not supposed to directly update Postfix
configuration files. Changes are better automated with documented
command-line interfaces, similar to "postconf -e".

It would be a mistake to split main.cf or master.cf into smtpd.cf,
local.cf, etcetera; scattering the information across files makes
"postconf -e" like editing harder.

Wietse