"Ante Karamatić" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 16.04.2010 19:45, Douglas Stanley wrote:
>
>> Isn't that more or less what happens when dpkg configures postfix anyway? Am
>> I
>> missing something that would make this task so difficult it's not worth
>> doing?
>
>Unfortunately, it's not that easy. postfix's configuration can be edited
>with 'postconf' tool. Packages can't edit configuration files on
>install, but they can use interface to configuration. postconf is an
>interface to main.cf.
>
>> I would vote for not shipping just an extra (potentially confusing)
>> config in a package
>> name that could also possibly confuse people, when there could be a
>> better way to
>> make it end user friendly.
>
>So, dovecot now supports conf.d directory, in the same way apache or
>amavisd-new have split configs. This allows us to have standard
>dovecot.conf and then additional configuration overrides in
>/etc/dovecot/conf.d directory. So, dovecot will read it's usual
>configuration file that will include configs from conf.d directory. In
>the same way it now uses dovecot-sql.conf or dovecot-ldap.conf. Does
>that solves the issue? Note: upstream added this feature, not Ubuntu or
>Debian.
It sounds like it does. If you can prepare an update and get it uploaded, I can
review it for the release team.
Scott. K
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