[Dovecot] Can I install in the following fashion?

[Stewart Dean]

Hmmm, hadn't thought of RPM.  But I would like a direct answer to my 
question, which was:  Can I just tar up everything in a dovecot-only 
prefix directory (defined in the invocation of configure) when the make 
and make install is done, and then untar/extract it in a directory of 
the same name over on another machine with the same OS, patches and 
OpenSSL?  Are there Dovecot dependencies outside prefix directory.

My OS is AIXV5.3 maintenance/tech level 4.  There is no distro RPMs for 
same, so I am building it myself.

Lior wrote:
> The problem you are describing is solved with tools like RPM and DEB.
>
> You can install/remove an entire package with a single command, you
> can verify the installation with a single command, you can safetly
> upgrade with a single command, and safetly revert to an older version
> with a single command.
>
> These tools allow you to find out exactly which file belongs to what
> package, and they prevent conflicting files from two different
> packages from being installed. Not to mention (almost) automatic (at
> least on debian) dependency resolving for packages.
>
> If you're using Debian, you can just "apt-get install dovecot-imap
> dovecot-pop", and have the dpkg handle all of the issues you
> mentioned. If you're using an RPM based distro- try yum or apt-rpm.
>
> Lior


Timothy White wrote:
>> If you're using Debian, you can just "apt-get install dovecot-imap
>> dovecot-pop", and have the dpkg handle all of the issues you
>> mentioned. If you're using an RPM based distro- try yum or apt-rpm.
>>     
>
> And there is nothing stopping you making a deb package, from a newer
> version of dovecot, that Debian has, AND, duplicating the server, so
> you can do a test upgrade... Of course, with any upgrade, someone will
> notice something ;-)
>
> Tim
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