[Dovecot] 2.2.12 RPM Needed

[Asai]

I found that there's a commercial Dovecot repo, which we're more than 
happy to pay for access to. Thanks, Timo!

--Asai

On 4/24/14 12:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 24.04.2014 19:37, schrieb Asai:
>> I'm not very experienced in building Source RPMs and we're in need of a Dovecot RPM for version 2.2.12 for CentOS
>> 5.  It seems that the  ATRPMs repo maintained by Axel Thimm hasn't seen much activity lately and the task of
>> updating a source RPM is more than I have time for as a busy developer who does systems admin on the side.
>>
>> Could anybody recommend another repo where there would be the latest Dovecot binaries?  Or perhaps tell me of any
>> gotchas and catches which might arise if I go ahead and build 2.2.12 from source over the RPM I currently have
>> installed (2.2.10)?
> you only need to replace the tarball and the version in the SPEC
> and rebuild the package - for monir updates you don't need anything
> else if upstream has no broken release strategy, dovecot's is fine
>
> i am building dovecot the last two years without any SPEC change
> except version and changelog - but you won't be happy with my
> stripped down SPEC following our infrastructure (no configs etc.)
>