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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