On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 22:37, Willem Riede wrote:
Now that you're running Fedora you should use a RPM to install dovecot. I can help you with that by getting you my working beta1 src.rpm to rebuild, if you like.
I personally have to disagree with this sentiment. While I do
happily use RPM packages some of the time, when I am running business-
critical applications like email servers, web servers, database
servers and the like, I _always_ compile from source.
Why? Because I want to know exactly how the binary was built. I
want to know that it's specifically compiled for my particular
machine. I've had too many weird problems with RPM packages - and
DEB packages for that matter - that proclaimed themselves to be i586
or i686 when in fact they were i386.
What it really comes down to is not always trusting a third-party
package maintainer. I know there are lots of good packages out
there, but I'm responsible for my systems, and I have to fix them
when they break, and explain to my boss why no one could get their
email for 3 hours.
Roger Weeks