Proposed dovecot update changes
Farkas Levente
lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Sun Jan 16 16:25:36 UTC 2005
Warren Togami wrote:
> John,
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143707
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145214
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145241
>
> Any objections to my proposed changes? I can implement all of this and
> supply patches for your review, or apply it myself to CVS if you wish. I
> summarize each problem and my proposed solution below.
>
> 1. Unnecessary dependency on mysql/postgresql
> =============================================
> Prereq: postgresql
> Prereq: mysql
>
> These lines are wrong. The package is fine without it, because RPM
> auto-dep pulls in the client library of mysql and postgresql rather than
> a larger unnecessary chunk of those databases. These dependencies are
> resolved properly by yum and handled automatically.
>
> Solution: Just remove those lines.
>
>
> 2. dovecot.conf should default to fcntl locking
> ===============================================
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145214#c7
> Our default dovecot.conf changed from fcntl to dotlock sometime after
> the release of FC2. That is one of the reasons why we see this above
> bug. This problem must now be attacked on two fronts:
>
> 1) Our default dovecot.conf must be changed to use fcntl by default
> again. If someone uses a broken NFS where fcntl doesn't work, then it
> is up them to edit their configuration to use dotlocks. If users have
> not modified dovecot.conf, then upgrading to the new package will set
> fcntl default.
>
> 2) For exisiting users who have modified dovecot.conf, it would be
> dangerous to force a change to fcntl during %post. Then
> "mail_extra_groups = mail" is the correct line to add durin
>
>
> 3. FC2 should not link to mysql/postgresql (???)
> ================================================
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145241#c1
>
> FC2 dovecot originally did not link to mysql and postgresql, so arguably
> we should not add those dependencies in an update. Unfortunately our
> current FC2 update is linked in this way, so we would be breaking
> existing users if they did begin using this functionality in FC2. I am
> guessing that the likelihood of this is very low and we should go ahead.
> (However we could just as easily leave it as is, then it would only be
> a minor annoyance rather than a real problem.)
>
> FC3 dovecot did link to mysql/postgresql libs, so we must not change
> that or split into sub-packages because then an update would break
> existing users.
>
> FC4 we have the option of splitting mysql/postgresql into sub-packages,
> which is probably the correct thing to do based on the php precedent.
>
> Thoughts?
correct.
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