Been doing a lot of reading on Dovecot and I think it would be best if I packaged it in several formats, kinda. For starters there will be a dovecot package that contains a base install that can use local files as well as berkley-db for authentication. Then several add-on packages containing other authentication modules: dovecot-mysql, dovecot-pgsql, dovecot-sqlite, dovecot-ldap, dovecot-vpopmail
That would cover the basics I think most anyone would need. This would help limit the base package requirements to just bzip2 and db. Just my thoughts. I think this package format would be best and it's not hard to update those packages because the dovecot-*AUTH* packages only contain a single .so file. Phillip Smith wrote: > 2009/11/14 Daniel Moree <dmoree at shadowbranch.com>: > >> Should we include support for SQL servers in any IMAP/POP3 >> server? If so, what should the default be? Should they all come with now >> support or create several packages that support each SQL? Thoughts? >> > > Dovecot, cyrus-sasl and associated MX applications should definitely > be packaged. I think packaging Postfix with support for MySQL, > PostgreSQL, DB and LDAP is the lesser of 2 evils compared to > maintaining multiple packages of Postfix with support for different > DB's in each database. > > This is the way upstream (ie, Arch Linux) does it so will also result > in less variation from upstream packaging efforts. > _______________________________________________ > ArchServer Project General Mail List > Post messages to: general at lists.archserver.org > Administer your subscription: http://lists.archserver.org/listinfo/general >
