On Fri, Sep 21, 2012, at 09:46 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012/09/21 12:25, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:54:46 +0300 > > Artturi Alm wrote: > > > > > >> Not sure if this is the right spot for this post. I am after a more > > > >> current version of dovecot than dovecot-2.0.13p5 to run on 5.0 release. > > > >> > > > >> Does anyone have a package or port available ? > > > > > > > > It's easy enough to build. > > > > > > Yet one should not build it from newer ports on 5.0 release. > > Yep the newer port is not directly usable as there have been changes > to the system (sqlite3 added to base) but tweaking it should not be > hard, just don't expect too much help for doing a non-standard thing > when you could just update. > > OpenBSD 5.1 has Dovecot 2.0.17 in binary packages (and 2.0.20 in > -stable ports which is very easy to update to if you're using 5.1). > > OpenBSD 5.2 will have 2.1.8, or -current usually tracks upstream > releases fairly promptly. > > > True, probably should have been clearer. Just check out the ports > > patches adapt them and build outside of ports and test. Easier than > > using ports if you are not on current and want a newer version. > > > > That way you're likely to end up with files sprinkled over /usr > rather than /usr/local which might cause exciting problems later. > Adapting the newer port is a safer suggestion, and also likely > to be easier. Though just upgrading is almost always the simplest > option. >
And because you are running 5.0 you are on the cusp of running an unsupported release.
