Dovecot 2.3 repo for CentOS 8.

[Tobias Kirchhofer]

On 14 Feb 2020, at 10:59, Peter wrote:

> 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.

Okay, will try 2.2.36. Our protoype is on Debian 10 with the latest 
Dovecot. Don’t know yet if we rely on features from the latest 
version. Will see. Thank you.

> 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.

We have CentOS 8.1 VMs productive with either of nginx, PostgreSQL, 
MariaDB, Node.js. No problems so far. Cross your fingers! :-)

>
> Peter


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