Stan Hoeppner
2010-Feb-11 02:11 UTC
[Dovecot] upgrade 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 to 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1
System: Debian 5.0.4 Lenny Kernel: custom 2.6.31.1 built from kernel.org source Dovecot: 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 Available: 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1 Mailbox format: mbox Storage location: /home/$user/mail/ on ext2 fs Delivery: Postfix 2.5.5 local to /var/mail/$user As you can see Debian has a backport package of Dovecot 1.2.9 available to Lenny users, and it appears it is a big jump forward in terms of elapsed time and codebase. Debian ships Dovecot in a collection of 6 packages. I currently only use two, dovecot-common and dovecot-imapd. I'm guessing it would probably be wise to shutdown all my current Dovecot processes before starting the upgrade. Before I do this upgrade I figured I'd ask first to see if there are any gotchas or explosions awaiting me. Any warnings, hints, pointers anyone? Timo? Thanks. -- Stan
Nikolay Shopik
2010-Feb-11 08:04 UTC
[Dovecot] upgrade 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 to 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1
On 11.02.2010 5:11, Stan Hoeppner wrote:> System: Debian 5.0.4 Lenny > Kernel: custom 2.6.31.1 built from kernel.org source > Dovecot: 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 > Available: 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1 > Mailbox format: mbox > Storage location: /home/$user/mail/ on ext2 fs > Delivery: Postfix 2.5.5 local to /var/mail/$user > > As you can see Debian has a backport package of Dovecot 1.2.9 available to Lenny > users, and it appears it is a big jump forward in terms of elapsed time and > codebase. > > Debian ships Dovecot in a collection of 6 packages. I currently only use two, > dovecot-common and dovecot-imapd. I'm guessing it would probably be wise to > shutdown all my current Dovecot processes before starting the upgrade. > > Before I do this upgrade I figured I'd ask first to see if there are any gotchas > or explosions awaiting me. Any warnings, hints, pointers anyone? Timo? > > Thanks. >Only these http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1 http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2