On 04/01/2026 15:55, Patrick via dovecot wrote:
Hi John,
On Sunday, January 4th, 2026 at 12:22 AM, John Fawcett via dovecot
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi
I realize this may seem overly nostalgic, but I was wondering if anyone
has successfully got dovecot-2.3.21.1 running on Fedora 43?
I just revived my copr with dovecot-2.3.21.1 for F43 (x86_64 and aarch64) based
on the SRPM from koji. The only change I made was bumping the epoch to 2 so any
F43 dovecot-2.4.x releases would not replace it. A fresh build which completed
successfully is here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/patrickl/Dovecot-2.3/
Meanwhile I switched to git HEAD with the debian config files from:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dovecot
You can find the F43 builds here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/patrickl/dovecot/
I'm about to do an upgrade to Fedora 43 and I wanted to avoid doing a
simultaneous upgrade to Dovecot 2.4 which is now the distro packaged
version, since I have not yet converted my configuration.
Either creating and adding your own copr with dovecot-2.3.21.1 for F43 or
adding my copr (with sudo dnf copr enable patrickl/Dovecot-2.3 ) should result
in dovecot-2.3.21.1 on F43 due to the higher epoch number (Epoch: 2) than the
F43-shipped dovecot-2.4.1 RPM (Epoch: 1).
I managed to compile from source (after taking care of adding -licuuc to
the linker flags when linking test-fts-filter). However running test-lib
then fails on two tests.
I have seen two tests fail with git HEAD (reported to this list) but they are
different.
My assumption as yet unverified is that the fedora specific patches are
avoiding the two test errors iwhen using the unpatched source, but
contribute to the error produced when using the patched source, though
my test did not rule out environment differences between these two tests.
There are a lot of patches in the dovecot-2.3.21.1 SRPM. Given that Fedora is
the upstream for RHEL (iirc via CentOS Stream) I guess they are needed for that
Enterprise flavor :-)
Best,
Patrick
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Hi Patrick
thanks for that, it was very helpful.
I ran a build on copr, directly uploading the soure rpm that is failing
for me locally, dovecot-2.3.21.1-5.fc43.src.rpm and I am getting the
same failure when building for x86_64.
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/johnfawcett/dovecot/build/9974087/
I compared my builider-live.log.gz with the one you did. My build is
failing during a make check. Looks like make check did not run on your
builds. So that probably explains the different behaviour. In any case
the distro spec file does not run the checks for aarch64, so if they can
be skipped for aarch64 not sure if I should worry about only 1 of them
failing for x86_64.
%check
%ifnarch aarch64
# some aarch64 tests timeout, skip for now
make check
cd dovecot-pigeonhole
make check
%endif
Looking futher into the Fedora specific patches, I can get the build to
complete (including make check) if I don't apply the distro hmac patch.
# do not use own implementation of HMAC, use OpenSSL for certification
purposes
# not sent upstream as proper fix would use dovecot's lib-dcrypt but it
introduces
# hard to break circular dependency between lib and lib-dcrypt
Patch16: dovecot-2.3.6-opensslhmac.patch
Thanks again!
John
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