<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 23.02.2019 um 03:33 schrieb Voytek Eymont via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Sat, February 23, 2019 10:41 am, Gerald Galster via dovecot wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class="">you can't install it yet because dovecot-2.3.4-2.x86_64 is not shown,<br class="">probably due to the priority protection plugin:<br class=""><br class="">-> 226 packages excluded due to repository priority protections<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Try disabling it, see:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/312472/what-does-that-mean-packages-exc" class="">https://serverfault.com/questions/312472/what-does-that-mean-packages-exc</a><br class="">luded-due-to-repository-priority-protections<br class=""><https://serverfault.com/questions/312472/what-does-that-mean-packages-ex<br class="">cluded-due-to-repository-priority-protections><br class=""><br class="">Afterwards you should see all dovecot packages and can install version<br class="">2.3.4 again<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Gerald,<br class=""><br class="">thank you again<br class=""><br class="">in meanwhile, I've tried specifying repo as in 'yum --enablerepo..',<br class="">perhaps I din't do it correctly as got errors, BUT, following your<br class="">advise/link, disabling r-p-p, now I see:<br class=""><br class=""># yum install dovecot dovecot-devel dovecot-mysql dovecot-pigeonhole<br class="">Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks<br class="">Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br class=""> * base: <a href="http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au" class="">mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au</a><br class=""> * epel: <a href="http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au" class="">mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au</a><br class=""> * extras: <a href="http://mirror.ventraip.net.au" class="">mirror.ventraip.net.au</a><br class=""> * remi-safe: <a href="http://remi.conetix.com.au" class="">remi.conetix.com.au</a><br class=""> * updates: <a href="http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au" class="">mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au</a><br class="">Resolving Dependencies<br class="">--> Running transaction check<br class="">---> Package dovecot.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 will be installed<br class="">---> Package dovecot-devel.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 will be installed<br class="">---> Package dovecot-mysql.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 will be installed<br class="">---> Package dovecot-pigeonhole.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 will be installed<br class="">--> Finished Dependency Resolution<br class=""><br class="">Dependencies Resolved<br class=""><br class="">================================================================================<br class=""> Package Arch Version Repository <br class="">Size<br class="">================================================================================<br class="">Installing:<br class=""> dovecot x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 dovecot-2.3-latest <br class="">4.4 M<br class=""> dovecot-devel x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 dovecot-2.3-latest <br class="">475 k<br class=""> dovecot-mysql x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 dovecot-2.3-latest <br class="">92 k<br class=""> dovecot-pigeonhole x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 dovecot-2.3-latest <br class="">704 k<br class=""><br class="">Transaction Summary<br class="">================================================================================<br class="">Install 4 Packages<br class=""><br class="">Total download size: 5.6 M<br class="">Installed size: 18 M<br class="">Is this ok [y/d/N]:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">so I guess I'm good to hit 'y'<br class=""><br class="">and:<br class=""><br class="">Running transaction check<br class="">Running transaction test<br class="">Transaction test succeeded<br class="">Running transaction<br class=""> Installing : 2:dovecot-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 1/4<br class=""> Installing : 2:dovecot-devel-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 2/4<br class=""> Installing : 2:dovecot-mysql-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 3/4<br class=""> Installing : 2:dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 4/4<br class=""> Verifying : 2:dovecot-devel-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 1/4<br class=""> Verifying : 2:dovecot-mysql-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 2/4<br class=""> Verifying : 2:dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 3/4<br class=""> Verifying : 2:dovecot-2.3.4.1-1.x86_64 <br class=""> 4/4<br class=""><br class="">Installed:<br class=""> dovecot.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 dovecot-devel.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1<br class=""> dovecot-mysql.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1 dovecot-pigeonhole.x86_64 2:2.3.4.1-1<br class=""><br class="">Complete!<br class="">[root@c7 ~]# dovecot --version<br class="">2.3.4.1 (3c0b8769e)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">thanks again!<br class="">(I should've read the install screen properly in the first place, and,<br class="">should've noticed I was installing NOT from dovecot...)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">just thinking... now that I installed OK, should I revert the priority<br class="">protection to '1', if I don't, will it bite me elsewhere, any thought ?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>I've never used it. When you install/update, yum shows which repository the package belongs to.<div class="">This has been sufficient so far.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities" class="">https://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities</a> / 7. A Cautionary Note:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># Note: The upstream maintainer of yum, Seth Vidal, had the following to say about</div><div class=""># 'yum priorities' in September 2009</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""># Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many things about</div><div class=""># priorities that make me cringe all over. It could just be that it reminds me of</div><div class=""># apt 'pinning' and that makes me want to hurl.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># The primary concern is that priorities is heavy handed over removing packages</div><div class=""># from the transaction set. It makes it difficult to readily determine what packages</div><div class=""># are being ignored and why. Even so, it is very flexible and can be extremely useful</div><div class=""># to provide the largest available list of packages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class="">Gerald</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>