RHEL7/CentOS7 RPM of dovecot 2.3.11.3-3 seems to have dropped tcpwrap support

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Fri Aug 21 16:42:03 EEST 2020


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 06:02:49PM +1200, Peter wrote:
> On 21/08/20 5:55 pm, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > > At a guess it was removed from the spec for el8 (which does not support
> > > tcpwrap) and somehow got removed from el7 by accident.  The ghettoforge
> > > dovecot23 packages have tcpwrap support for el7:

So is el8 truly incompatible with tcpwrap?  Or is it just too much 
effort to continue suport for every feature that was ever in the system?

If the former, might it be reasonable for a user to change the 8's in 
the code below to 9's?

-- hendrik

> > 
> > We are looking into this, it was indeed removed from el7 by accident. RPM macros can be quite tricky sometimes.
> 
> I have:
> 
> %if 0%{?rhel} < 8
> BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers-devel
> %endif
> 
> ... then later ...
> 
> %if 0%{?rhel} < 8
>     --with-libwrap		 \
> %endif
> 
> 
> Peter


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