[OpenIndiana-discuss] Re webmin solaris package and OpenCSW and other things

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Why would you want to use OpenCSW?? Most packages there are terribly 
old: e g erlang is of the R11 family while the OI supplied erlang+otp 
package is a late R12 and I'm realistically hoping for a mid R15 
Erlang+OTP to be introduced pretty soon. Dovecot is also at least a year 
old on OpenCSW..

Your Dovecot story still sounds like a bad deal.
Can you expand on that? What did you do, what happened, and what did you 
do to try to get it fixed??

I'll see about compiling the latest dovecot from sources, and maybe even 
package it as an SVr4 pkg. Unless someone can show me how to duplicate 
the SFE setup for dovecot and other stuff on my own server. In which 
case I might set up a repository and start contributing to the main 
effort. There used to be a wiki page on that, but I can't seem to find 
it?? Maybe I'm just going blind.

BTW, re: webmin: it installs OK using the webmin.com supplied Solaris 
package, if one changes the root account from a role to a normal 
account. I much prefer this to the IPS webmin, which cannot be updated, 
and thus won't work with a recent dovecot.
I'm still not decided: maybe it would still be better to let the 
non-initiates learn about the std admin tools and panels and access the 
servers over VNC.

On 2013-02-24 13:00, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:35:38 +0600
> From: Dmitry Kozhinov<dima at desktopfay.com>
> To:openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Webmin Solaris package for Webmin
> 	1.620 on Openindiana?
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> I have not tried Webmin, but I would like to share a poor experience
> with some OI packages.
>
> Dovecot service refuses to start after install, falls into maintenance
> mode. I had to install Dovecot from OpenCSW.
>
> Seems like OI project is lacking manpower, and I understand why Alasdair
> has resigned:(
>