* On 09/05/06 16:27 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: | Les Mikesell wrote: | > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:03, Dominic Marks wrote: | > | >> >> To make this relevant to the conversion, can you tell us what | >> >> versions of Dovecot have been included and how they handled | >> >> the transition from .99x to 1.x in those distros? | >> > | >> > If you are talking about the configuration file changes then this | >> is | >> > the responsibility of the admin to modify. In FreeBSD at least | >> > upgrading required manual editing of the configuration. | >> > | >> > FreeBSD has a tool called portupgrade which can be used for | >> automatic | >> > configuration. It can be configured to hold the current version of | >> an | >> | >> Sorry, I meant automatic upgrades, not configuration. | > | > Did they have one of these for the .99x -> 1.x upgrade and | > is this a script that could be used elsewhere to make the | > appropriate syntax changes automatically? | | No, and the value of such tools if questionable. I think scripts like | this have the potential to be quite dangerous. Besides, its part of | the job of the admin :) There are no automatic updates on FreeBSD! The admin decides to upgrade for a reason and does it manually. Actually, to start with, FreeBSD never installs any application services (server apps like dovecot) for you!! You have to know the need for and install what you want and from there, maintain it! -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"