On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:30:06AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Eray Aslan wrote: > > To be published ASAP, feedback welcome > > > > > > Title: net-mail/dovecot-2.4.x may break on upgrade > > Author: Eray Aslan <[email protected]> > > Posted: 2025-05-20 > > Revision: 1 > > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > > Display-If-Installed: <net-mail/dovecot-2.4 > > > > Dovecot-2.4 introduced breaking change to its entire configuration system > > and > > Dovecot-2.3 configuration files will NOT work after upgrade. Please read > > > > https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html > > > > before upgrading. We strongly recommend finalizing your Dovecot 2.4 > > configuration on a test system before upgrading any production systems. > > > > The following steps typically make the upgrade process easier: > > > > 1. Make a note of your current configuration by running doveconf -n > > 2. Stop the dovecot daemon > > 3. Move ALL your configuration files to a temporary location > > 4. Upgrade to doveocot-2.4.x > > 5. Read the new configuration files and uncomment as necessary > > 6. Compare the new doveconf -n output with the old one and add missing > > configuration settings one by one while checking that the system works after > > each change > > > > > > > Spelling: > > 4. Upgrade to doveocot-2.4.x > > should be > > 4. Upgrade to dovecot-2.4.x > ^^^^ >
This looks great to me (beyond they small typo that already has been mentioned), concise and to the point. Thanks for writing it up quickly! > Lowly user who changed keyboards, has to correct a LOT of spelling errors. > LOL > > Also, shouldn't the user be alerted before upgrading not after? Maybe show > even if the old version is installed since upgrade is coming? Kinda like the > recent python upgrade. Eray's draft is for a news item, and as per > > Display-If-Installed: <net-mail/dovecot-2.4 it will be shown to anyone who has a previous version of dovecot installed. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Zoltan
