[OpenIndiana-discuss] How often is sfe Dovecot updated?

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

On pá, 2013-03-22 at 08:06 +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> So I take it you're the lead on doing SFE for OI??
> 

if you call me in such way as I am the only one publishing to official
SFE OI repo.

> Can you comment on what is the most accurate instruction for how to 
> build OI SFE packages???
> 
> Looking at the tree under http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SFE I see links 
> that are no longer working and several other minor oddities.
> 
> Also, there's a tantalising reference to "more modern methods" that 
> "will be commented here".
> 
> I've asked about this before, but noone answered precisely this question:
> 
> Where is the correct documentation on how to do OI SFE repository 
> packages at home?
> 
> AND, pehaps a more interesting question:
> 
> How to get involved as a maintainer of some particular package or set of 
> packages???
> 

Both start on http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ as you
discovered already. Try to build your first SVR4 package, then the next
step is easy, just create your local publisher with pkgrepo and export
PKGBUILD_IPS_SERVER (as URL) for pkgtool and it will publish IPS package
to that repo.

To be maintainer of some package, you have to prepare your CBE and
submit some updated spec for review to SFE mailing list. See the URL
above.

Best regards,

Milan

> 
> On 2013-03-22 07:09, Milan Jurik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > SFE dovecot has active maintainer these days. The problem is on my side,
> > at least partially, because I am building SFE packages and pushing them
> > to the repo. SFE build zone is down for last 2 weeks and admins had no
> > time to look at it yet.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Milan
> >
> > On čt, 2013-03-21 at 15:00 -0600, DormitionSkete at hotmail.com wrote:
> >> Who maintains the SFE package?  If somebody is already maintaining it, I don't think I should butt in. (?)
> >>
> >> I kind of have my hands full trying to get a grip on video card device drivers for Illumos, which I think OI desktop users would benefit greatly from if I can figure it out, and get it through the whole acceptance process.  If I give up on it -- and I don't give up very easily -- I'd be more inclined to do some package work for OI.  I can't really take that on right now, though.  At a later time, I might take you up on that offer, though!
> >>
> >> I'm just wondering how often dovecot SFE gets updated?
> >>
> >> I don't think building a script to update dovecot from sources would be that hard, and I wouldn't mind sharing it with others if I end up going that route, but I find the whole thought of that a bit ugly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 21, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm in exactly the same situation re dovecot. No doubt several others are, too.
> >>>
> >>> Keeping an SFE package updated is probably no more work than keeping your own installation updated from sources.
> >>>
> >>> Different, and a little bit of a learning curve to traverse, but not terribly difficult even that.
> >>>
> >>> If that seems daunting, SVr4 packages can be kept updated and downloadable from somewhere,
> >>> and those are possibly a little easier to produce.
> >>>
> >>> Either way, others would benefit. If you decide to go down this road, call on me, and I could try to help out.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2013-03-21 19:36, DormitionSkete at hotmail.com wrote:
> >>>> How often are the dovecot packages in sfe updated?
> >>>>
> >>>> service/network/imap/dovecot	2.1.14,5.11-0.151.1.7:20130208T203706Z
> >>>>
> >>>> It's one update behind from what's on the dovecot site, and interestingly enough, the current version came out the same day as this was posted on the sfe repository.
> >>>>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> v2.1.15 2013-02-08  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> >>>>
> >>>> 	- v2.1.14: dovecot.index.cache fixes caused it to use more disk I/O
> >>>> 	  and memory than necessary.
> >>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm at that dreaded time where I'm starting to try to figure out what in the world I'm going to do to try to improve our email situation.    If I end up using dovecot - which I probably will - I'd like to keep it fairly up to date.  I'm trying to decide whether I want to use the sfe repository, or write my own update script to keep it updated from the sources.
> >>>>
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