dovecot - Dec 2007 - Just verifying upgrade procedure?

When upgrading from source, it's ok to just run make install and every files
will be overwritten with the new version?
Nothing else one should do?


Regards,

BTJ

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bj?rn T Johansen

btj at havleik.no
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange
Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs
Windows"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bj?rn T Johansen a ?crit :
> When upgrading from source, it's ok to just run make install and every
files will be overwritten with the new version?
> Nothing else one should do?
> 
Pay attention to the fact that the dovecot daemon dynamically starts the 
imap and pop server executables whenever inboud connexions are requested.

If you upgrade without stopping the master dovecot, and clients request 
connexions, dovecot will try to run the new imap and pop executables, 
which are not the same version as the master, and problems may arise.

The "good" solution is to stop the master dovecot *before* make
install,
and restart it afterwards; or to make sure no clients try to connect 
before you completed the upgrade process.


-- 
Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner
pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de
suspect n'a ete trouve.