[Dovecot] dovecot tring to load sql modules

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:20:41PM -0700, Dean Gibson (Mail Administrator) wrote:
> On 2006-08-13 11:11, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >Installing support for mysql client libs does not imply you have to 
> >run a mysql server (or even access one). That's what security is about 
> >when discussing minimal systems in a security context.
> 
> Really?  And how do you install JUST the client libs? [... more rant
> on how to install things ...]

On every modern distribution, or better said, on every distribution
but LFS you have depsolver tools that automatically cater for the
dependencies, no one is on "treasure hunts" since ages. For Fedora
Core take your pick:

     smart install dovecot
     yum install dovecot
     apt-get install dovecot

On FC1 it yields the following:

# smart install dovecot
Loading cache...
Updating cache...
######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...

Installing packages (21):
  SysVinit-2.85-5 at i386                   mysql-3.23.58-4 at i386                   
  cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-6 at i386               net-tools-1.60-20.1 at i386               
  cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.15-6 at i386           openldap-2.1.22-8 at i386                 
  dovecot-1.0-0_19.rc6.fc1.at at i386       perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9002-1 at i386           
  ethtool-1.8-2.1 at i386                   perl-DBI-1.37-1 at i386                   
  fedora-release-1-3 at i386                postgresql-libs-7.3.4-2 at i386           
  initscripts-7.42-1 at i386                procps-2.0.17-1 at i386                   
  iproute-2.4.7-11 at i386                  psmisc-21.3-2.RHEL.0 at i386              
  iputils-20020927-9.1 at i386              sysklogd-1.4.1-13 at i386                 
  mingetty-1.06-2 at i386                   util-linux-2.11y-29 at i386               
  mount-2.11y-29 at i386                    

12.9MB of package files are needed. 32.7MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): 

That's all there is to "treasure hunts".

> >And what should any packaging system do when you suddenly do reference 
> >mysql support in dovecot.conf? Should it automatically install the missing 
> >libs the moment you leave the editor?
> 
> The packaging system shouldn't do anything.  If I were ever to suddenly 
> reference mysql support in dovecot.conf, I expect to THEN get the error 
> message I got,

You got an error message because you explicitly broke package and
library dependencies, you want such a breakage to be the default mode
of packaging and library management? Sorry, that's totally
unacceptable.

> Fortunately, when I gave up chasing the MySQL RPM dependency trail and 
> downloaded the dovecot source, for some inexplicable reason it built 
> without having to engage in the usual "include file treasure hunt".  It 
> took a couple builds (getting pam-dev and OpenSSL-dev, and for some 
> reason e2fsprogs-dev), and a couple configuration fits and starts, but 
> now Dovecot is up and running.

I'm a Fedora/Red Hat user and in a parallel thread a gentoo user and
myself were making distributions jokes. But to be honest I like
gentoo, if I were to use source based distribution, I would go gentoo.

From what you write *you are a gentoo user*, but possibly don't know
that yet. If you need taylored, minimal setups tuned to your liking
and matching your demands and your hardware you need to use gentoo
(or other similar distributions).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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