On 09/01/18 11:46, John Tulp wrote: > Should I send a response to your message via an email to > dovecot@dovecot.org ? > Or just reply to you directly like this ?
You should always reply to the mailing list unless told otherwise. > For CentOS version, I need to support 32-bit x86 a while longer. Ok. > Could you possibly save me some time and provide a > link on the dovecot.org site ? https://repo.dovecot.org/ > I really did not want to install from > source, I was very surprised that I did not find a link to download a > completely built backage on dovecot.org. The official dovecot repo is fairly new, but also GhettoForge has been providing dovecot packages for CentOS 6 and 7 for quite some time now. > Regarding yum update, yes, I would assume that I would not run yum > update after that build/install. That's a bad idea. You need to run updates on a regular basis to fix new vulnerabilities that are discovered such as the very recent meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities (look these up, they're serious). > I'm really perplexed as to why yum update would not just take me to > 2.3.0 ??? I guess the RedHat folks just include "certain" releases of > packages in the repositories ? See: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting Peter
