On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:02:23 +0100 Angel Marin <an...@anmar.eu.org> wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote: > > on 2-9-2009 8:07 PM Linux Advocate spake the following: > >> guys , i m new to centos. i have learned to use yum and the > >> priority plugin. Does the atrpm repo provide the most up to date > >> version of dovecot? i have > > the following > >> repos configured ->epel and rpm forge besides thestandard > >> base,updates,addons,extras repos. > >> > >> > > Atrpms is the most up to date version I have found so far, and it > > looks like it is recently up to 1.1.11. They also have the 1.0 > > branch if you need it. I usually leave it disabled and only enable > > it with the "yum --enablerepo=atrpms update dovecot" > > command when I want to update dovecot. It seems a little too > > "cutting edge" for my tastes on a server. > > Others are OK with it being enabled, so YMMV. > > If you only want to pull dovecot from atrpms, add a includepkgs > option to the repo definition[1] and leave it enabled. You'll see > dovecot updates just like any other package without having to use the > whole repo: > > [atrpms] > name=Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms > baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms > enabled=1 > includepkgs=dovecot* > > [atrpms-testing] > name=Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms-testing > baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/testing > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms > enabled=1 > includepkgs=dovecot* > > [1] http://atrpms.net/install.html Better use specific package names, speeds up 'yum check-update' (etc. pp.) quite a bit. And something like Nagios won't bite you, because there was some timeout due to the filtering. -jhz