Am 07.10.19 um 17:23 schrieb Jonathan Casiot via dovecot:

On 07/10/2019 15:11, Günther J. Niederwimmer via dovecot wrote:

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Hello List,

I have to install a "new" system, what is the best way for this. I like to install a CentOS System but I only found dovecot for CentOS 7 is this compatible for CentOS 8 or have I to setup a CentOS 7 System ?

The onboard dovecot is 2.2.36-5 :-(

Thanks for a answer,

Dovecot 2.2.36-5 can be installed from the CentOS 8 AppStream repository using yum/dnf.

Regards,

That's not what he was asking for as he already figured that there is only 2.2.36-5 in EL8 available. EL8 introduced some changes that especially affect build environments/requirements.

For example tcp_wrappers has been dropped and there is also no quota-devel package yet. So, it's basically difficult to build certain packages (like dovecot) due to missing dependencies that can't be resolved yet, unless one builds the missing dependencies him/herself.

On the other hand I do wonder what's the problem with 2.2.36? You could install this first and upgrade Dovecot at a later point when Dovecot 2.3.x is available for EL8?

Michael