How does this affect the other packages and the dependencies ? For example, my test system is an Ubuntu 14.04/trusty box ...
$ dpkg -l dove* | fgrep ii ii dovecot-antispam 2.0+20130822-2build1 Dovecot plugins for training spam filters ii dovecot-core 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 secure POP3/IMAP server - core files ii dovecot-imapd 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 secure POP3/IMAP server - IMAP daemon ii dovecot-lmtpd 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 secure POP3/IMAP server - LMTP server ii dovecot-managesieved 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 secure POP3/IMAP server - ManageSieve server ii dovecot-sieve 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 secure POP3/IMAP server - Sieve filters support ii dovecot-solr 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 secure POP3/IMAP server - Solr support
So rather than the stock
_sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-sieve dovecot-antispam dovecot-managesieved dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-solr_
one would install _dovecot_ from the MAMARLEY PPA ? To integrate cleanly it would have to "Provides: dovecot-common" and "Replaces: dovecot-common, mailavenger" like the stock dovecot-core does. While we can and do use non-stock packages, we really try to stay with stock(ish) packages as much as possible to ease upgrade administration. I'm dealing with a slew of custom apache2 installs, all unique, on a bunch of old Cent 5.2 boxes right now, and it's a mighty pain.
D.
On 2014-06-04 16:41, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 04.06.2014 19:53, schrieb Patrick De Zordo:
Well, not so easy.. we are working on a productive server; this version ships as default for this distro.. I don't even know how to compile my own dovecot version..
see
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries#Automatically_Built_Packages
or
recompile
https://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/06/17/dovecot-patching-mit-debian-und-ubuntu/