ports/150789: New port: mail/dovecot20

Attila Nagy bra at fsn.hu
Mon Oct 4 09:20:06 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR ports/150789; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu>
To: Denny Lin <dennylin93 at hs.ntnu.edu.tw>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/150789: New port: mail/dovecot20
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:16:01 +0200

   Hi,
 
 My personal opinion is that versioned ports are the best. Major versions 
 usually differ so much that an automatic upgrade is not desireable.
 Take for example Berkeley DB and OpenLDAP...
 
 On 10/03/2010 12:00 PM, Denny Lin wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I asked this question on freebsd-ports@, but I didn't really get any
 > replies. Should mail/dovecot be updated to 2.0 or should a new port be
 > created for 2.0?
 >
 > It seems that the port names are a bit inconsistent. E.g., mail/postfix
 > contains the latest stable version and older versions are named
 > mail/postfixXX. On the other hand, net/freeradius contains 1.1 while
 > net/freeradius2 has the latest version.
 >
 



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