Re: new install on Centos 7
I currently have Postfix Dovecot MySQL on Centos 6, looking at migrating to new server
new server is CentOS 7.3, but, the Centos repo version is
dovecot x86_64 1:2.2.10-7.el7
what is the best way to install current release Dovecot on a new server ?
GhettoForge has dovecot22 packages as well which provide the latest stable version of Dovecot for CentOS 6 and 7.
Or consider compiling it yourself from source. It may be more work, but you get complete control over your versioning, your package dependencies, etc. If a bug that affects you gets fixed on a bleeding edge version (or is only available as a patch), you can fix it right away rather than waiting for the package maintainer to catch up to it.
Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>
On 11/08/17 07:46, Joseph Tam wrote:
GhettoForge has dovecot22 packages as well which provide the latest stable version of Dovecot for CentOS 6 and 7.
Or consider compiling it yourself from source. It may be more work, but you get complete control over your versioning, your package dependencies, etc. If a bug that affects you gets fixed on a bleeding edge version (or is only available as a patch), you can fix it right away rather than waiting for the package maintainer to catch up to it.
Or just ping me in #ghettoforge on Freenode and I'll generally get it fixed quickly, if I haven't already seen it on the list and fixed it.
There are downsides to compiling yourself. If you do so then you have to monitor new releases and bugfixes and push out updates. If you use packages in a yum repo, even a 3rd-party one like GhettoForge, then someone else does that for you and all you have to do is run, "yum update" on a regular basis.
Peter
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