On 04/01/2015 07:53 PM, Merlin at Desktop Masters wrote:
Correct
Correct
Correct
And when I went to the page it lead me here. Whomever is making the
.deb packages needs to be made aware of this. Can you please point me
into a direction?
The issue with ssl certificates has been a long, painful and complicated
saga, occurring mostly upstream (Debian) and with one change apparently
on the Ubuntu side as well.
You should review the Debian change log to see the current status of
this (there have been changes) and before you make any suggestions, try
to familiarize yourself with what has been tried up until now and what
the problems were. Read through the Debian change log and see where ssl
is mentioned, and look at the cited bug reports by browsing to
https://bugs.debian.org/<bug number>
Have fun!
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_2.2.9-1ubuntu5/changelog
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/dovecot/changelog-1%3A2.2.13-11
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/dovecot.git/log/
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/dovecot.git/tree/debian/dovecot-core.README.Debian
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bugs
You should probably work this out with Debian rather than Ubuntu.
~ Merlin
On 4/1/2015 4:33 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote:
On 2015-03-29 13:58, Merlin at Desktop Masters wrote:
Greetings,
I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a
virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the
install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the
install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we
decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign
the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows...
This would be on Debian/Ubuntu.
When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed
certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the
install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the
service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the
script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the
install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the
self signed certificates.
So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install
certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse
them.
This would be on Debian/Ubuntu.
2. Why are you starting the service right after install when
dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup.
This would be on Debian/Ubuntu.
I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of
the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already
running.
This would be on Debian/Ubuntu.
~ Merlin
