[Dovecot] Upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 on Debian

[Sven Hartge]

Gedalya <gedalya at gedalya.net> wrote:
> On 10/20/2013 05:39 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Lucas Rothamel - Eye Catching Webdesign <info at eye-catching-webdesign.de> wrote:

>>> I am currently running Dovecot 2.1 on current Debian and need to
>>> upgrade to 2.2 to use the replication features.  I understand that I
>>> therefore need to compile Dovecot myself.

>> No. Just use the excellent packages from
>> http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ See
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries for more information.
>>
>> It says "Don't use them in production" on the label of the
>> repository, but if you set the installed packages on hold via
>> dpkg/apt-get so you don't get suprised by sudden updates, this
>> repository is safe to use.

> I agree in principle, specifically if you just look at the last
> commits at http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/ so you know what your
> latest binaries contain, and it seems to make sense, then you can put
> the packages on hold, and test them given your particular
> configuration and demands. if it works, then .. it works.

> If you want the proper debian way, just take the 2.2 package from
> debian's experiemental suite , refresh it to 2.2.6 and compile it.
> It's not all that hard to do.

The moment the included pigeonhole patch does no longer apply cleanly,
simply respinning the package becomes a tad more difficult. If you know
your way around the Debian packaging tools, this is of course no big
problem.

All others might be better of with the packages from rename-it.nl, as
those are based on the latest packages from Debian with all the matching
patches applied.

Grüße,
Sven.

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