Dovecot 2.3 repo for CentOS 8.

I tried rebuilding the RPM for CentOS 8 but I see it's missing some notable required packages like tcp wrappers and quota-devel. Managed to rebuild by switching these off in the spec file (--without-libwrap), but that's probably not a good idea. :)

Reio

filbar＠centrum.cz

1:01 p.m.

Hello, I have builded some dovecot packages for CentOS 8 in my personal repository: http://repo.joomhosting.eu/centos/8/x86_64/ and SRPMS are in http://repo.joomhosting.eu/centos/8/SRPMS/

I you want you can try it.

With best regards, Filip Bartmann

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:31:45 +0200 Reio Remma <reio@mrstuudio.ee> wrote:

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Reio Remma

1:04 p.m.

On 12/12/2019 13:01, filbar@centrum.cz wrote:

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Thanks! Will have a look. :)

Reio

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Tobias Kirchhofer

14 Feb 14 Feb

11:10 a.m.

Hi Filip,

On 12 Dec 2019, at 12:01, filbar@centrum.cz wrote:

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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?

Tobias

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Peter

11:59 a.m.

On 14/02/20 10:10 pm, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote:

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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

Tobias Kirchhofer

15 Feb 15 Feb

3:15 p.m.

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

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On 14/02/20 10:10 pm, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote:

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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.

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