Tag: opendmarc

I have been using Skelleton‘s guide¹ to setup opendmarc on some mail server I am building.

My problem is the version of opendmarc that comes with Debian is 1.3.0 and this version has a bug² which fails to honor the IgnoreAuthenticatedClients directive.

This is an attempt to build³ the newest version, 1.3.1, for Debian jessie.

Prepare the environment

• Install all necessary packages:

  $ sudo apt -y install pbuilder debootstrap devscripts packaging-dev debian-keyring
  

• Prepare a Debian jessie build environment:

  $ sudo pbuilder create --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --mirror http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ --distribution jessie --architecture amd64 --components main --debbuildopts -mJohn Doe \<john .doe@example.net\>
  

Prepare the Debian environment for opendmarc 1.3.1

• Download and extract the package:

  $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opendmarc/opendmarc-1.3.1.tar.gz
  $ tar xvzf opendmarc-1.3.1.tar.gz
  $ cd opendmarc-1.3.1/
  

• Prepare for Debian packaging:

  $ DEBFULLNAME="John Doe" DEBEMAIL="john.doe@example.net" dh_make -s -y --createorig
  

  • Rename the debian folder:

    $ mv debian debian.orig
    

• Shamelessly copy *debian/** from the original:

  $ cd /tmp/
  $ apt-get source opendmarc
  $ cd opendmarc-1.3.1+dfsg/
  $ cp -a debian/ ~/opendmarc-1.3.1
  

• Optional steps:
  • Change the Author name to yours in debian/control

  • Restore the debian/changelog file:

    $ cp debian.orig/changelog debian/
    

  • Get rid of the debian.orig folder:

    $ mv debian.orig/ ..
    

  • Edit the debian/changelog file with dch -e:

    opendmarc (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium<br />
      * Initial release: To fix the IgnoreAuthenticatedClients issue:
        http://www.trusteddomain.org/pipermail/opendmarc-users/2016-April/000636.html
     -- John Doe </john><john .doe@example.net>  Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:43:22 +0300
    

Build opendmarc 1.3.1

• Run pdebuild:

  $ pdebuild
  

• You cab find the resultant debs under /var/cache/pbuilder/result/:

  $ ls -la /var/cache/pbuilder/result/
  total 868
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root      root        4096 Απρ  29 13:54 .
  drwxr-xr-x 8 root      root        4096 Απρ  29 12:56 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 theodotos theodotos  38534 Απρ  29 13:54 libopendmarc2_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb
  -rw-r--r-- 1 theodotos theodotos  64210 Απρ  29 13:54 libopendmarc-dev_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb
  -rw-r--r-- 1 theodotos theodotos   2348 Απρ  29 13:54 opendmarc_1.3.1-1_amd64.changes
  -rw-r--r-- 1 theodotos theodotos  75890 Απρ  29 13:54 opendmarc_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 theodotos theodotos    846 Απρ  29 13:54 opendmarc_1.3.1-1.dsc
  -rw-r--r-- 1 theodotos theodotos 663859 Απρ  29 13:54 opendmarc_1.3.1-1.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 theodotos theodotos  17136 Απρ  29 13:54 rddmarc_1.3.1-1_all.deb
  

You can now copy the debs over your mail server and test them.

Update: I did this before I had discovered that opendmarc 1.3.1 is in Debian jessie backports⁴. But an interesting drill nevertheless.

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