Dovecot 2.3 repo for CentOS 8.

[Peter]

On 14/02/20 10:10 pm, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote:
> would it be useful/advisable to use this repo for productive operation?
> 
> An official repo is still not available for CentOS 8 https://repo.dovecot.org/
> 
> We would like to set up our new mail server on CentOS 8 and are waiting… :)
> 
> What is your advice?

As others have mentioned there are missing -devel packages in CentOS 8, 
which is because there are missing -devel packages in RHEL 8, most 
notably in this case is quota-devel.  tcp wrappers is also missing but 
that's because they are deprecated in CentOS 8 so building without tcp 
wrapper support is not a big deal, but I would assume that a lot of 
people will want quota support, so I wouldn't want to build a dovecot 
package without it.

Personally I'm trying to get the GhettoForge build system modified so it 
can get missing -devel packages by rebuilding the source rpms for them, 
this is a work in progress.  There is also work on the CentOS side to 
build and offer up the missing -devel packages.  At the end of the day 
nobody will be able to build decent dovecot packages until one of these 
things happens.

For now you can use the stock dovecot 2.2.36 that comes with CentOS or 
you can wait.  CentOS and Red Hat have not made this easy so it is going 
to take time.

Also on a personal note, I think that pushing out any production server 
on CentOS 8 at this time is premature.  CentOS 8 simply is not ready 
yet, imo.


Peter