Postfix emerge question

Ward · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 74

I've installed postfix and configured it but I forgot to enable mysql support.
Is it possible to add the support without re-emerging it, or losing my configs ???

Thanks

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

You will need to re-emerge it with USE="mysql" - you won't mess any of your configs up with the re-emerge alone - it will take you extra steps to mess them up

Ward · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 74

I have the mysql flag in my make.conf now, do i need to reload that?

Just to re-emerge -> emerge postfix ?

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

if you added the USE flag in make,conf yes, just emerge postfix again. 'emerge -av postfix' should now show you the new flag being used.

Ward · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 74

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

try taking out the leading whitespace from your USE portion in the make.conf - if it still doesn't fix it then the ebuild creator or package maintainer disabled mysql on purpose - that's a whole 'nuther issue in itself.

Ward · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 74

does nothing still the same :s

can i just use

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

The ebuild will still overwrite it - do an 'USE="mysql" emerge -av postfix' to verify.