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 :)
Dom
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