Thanks, Troy......
but it looks to me like you're compiling on your production machine,
no? Which I have decided not to do, since leaving a compiler on them
means that people that manage to break in can do nastier things....
Troy Engel wrote:
Stewart Dean wrote:
Alas, when I actually tried to run dovecot, it was asking for its
resource /in the original build tree/ location, which wasn't there.
Is there some way I can do what I want?
While I haven't done this specifically with Dovecot, you should be
able to manage everything in a simple manner like you want; I
currently do this with Exim and Courier-IMAP on the old production
server solely with switches to ./configure. Here's how it basically
works, maybe it'll help you get dovecot working:
Source:
/opt/build/courer-imap-1.2.3
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/courier-imap-1.2.3
--with-authchangepwdir=${exec_prefix}/libexec/authlib
--with-makedatprog=${exec_prefix}/libexec/makedatprog (more and more
switches that don't matter for this)
After building, a simple "make install" places everything in
/opt/courier-1.2.3. Then there's a symlink like so:
/opt/courier-imap -> /opt/courier-1.2.3
...and finally the /etc/init.d/ script loads the actual courier
processes using /opt/courier-imap, not the "standard" /usr based
things (so you'll need to customize to fit the default dovecot init.d
script).
When I upgrade (or downgrade) it's as simple as running the same
scenario on the new code (which means a new make install does not
overwrite the old), migrate the config files as needed, stop the old
daemon, switch the symlink, then start the new daemon up. Users don't
see interruption in their email experience and I'm confident of a
backup plan in an emergency.
This has been working great for many years upgrading Courier and Exim
on the same machine; rarely do I have to fall back but when it does
happen it's been as simple as pie.
-te
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